Reconstructing the global topology of the universe from the cosmic microwave background

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/9/007zbMATH Open0947.83059arXivastro-ph/9802012OpenAlexW2018356328MaRDI QIDQ4699740FDOQ4699740

Authors: Jeffrey R. Weeks 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If the universe is multiply-connected and sufficiently small, then the last scattering surface wraps around the universe and intersects itself. Each circle of intersection appears as two distinct circles on the microwave sky. The present article shows how to use the matched circles to explicitly reconstruct the global topology of space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802012

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zbMATH Keywords

last scattering surfaceglobal topology of space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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• SnapPea

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