Statistical anisotropy as a consequence of inflation

DOI10.1002/ANDP.201010440MaRDI QIDQ3561791zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuri Shtanov

Publication date 26 May 2010

Published in Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4879

zbMATH Keywords

inflationprimordial perturbationsstatistical anisotropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Statistical astronomy (85A35) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: Cosmological inflation remains to be a unique mechanism of generation of plausible initial conditions in the early universe. In particular, it generates the primordial quasiclassical perturbations with power spectrum determined by the fundamental principles of quantum field theory. In this work, we pay attention to the fact that the quasiclassical perturbations permanently generated at early stages of inflation break homogeneity and isotropy of the cosmological background. The evolution of the small-scale quantum vacuum modes on this inhomogeneous background results in statistical anisotropy of the primordial power spectrum, which can manifest itself in the observable large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background. The effect is predicted to have almost scale-invariant form dominated by a quadrupole and may serve as a non-trivial test of the inflationary scenario. Theoretical expectation of the magnitude of this statistical anisotropy depends on the assumptions about the physics in the trans-Planckian region of wavenumbers.

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