The Search for the Topology of the Universe Has Just Begun [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11426


Anomalous large-angle cosmic microwave background anisotropies motivate further searches for cosmic topology. We demonstrate that for generic topologies of spatially flat spacetimes, off-diagonal correlations between microwave background harmonic coefficients over a wide range of scales encode significant topological information, even if the topology scale substantially exceeds the diameter of the observable Universe. Observational searches have so far considered only a small subset of testable topologies, and current limits on the topology scale are much weaker than generally understood.

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Y. Akrami, C. Copi, J. Eskilt, et. al.
Fri, 21 Oct 22
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Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures