Natural Covariant Planck Scale Cutoffs and the Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.119.031301MaRDI QIDQ6281043zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Achim Kempf, Robert T. W. Martin

Publication date 19 December 2016

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.119.031301

Abstract: We calculate the impact of quantum gravity-motivated ultraviolet cutoffs on inflationary predictions for the cosmic microwave background spectrum. We model the ultraviolet cutoffs fully covariantly to avoid possible artifacts of covariance breaking. Imposing these covariant cutoffs results in the production of small, characteristically

k -

dependent oscillations in the spectrum. The size of the effect scales linearly with the ratio of the Planck to Hubble lengths during inflation. Consequently, the relative size of the effect could be as large as one part in

1 0^{5}

; i.e., eventual observability may not be ruled out.

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