http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06057
The presence of CMB Hemispherical Asymmetry (HPA) challenges the current understanding of inflationary cosmology which does not generically predict the parity violation in the primordial correlations. In this paper, we shall review the recently proposed resolution to this based on a new formulation of quantizing inflationary fluctuations by focusing on the discrete spacetime transformations in a gravitational context. The predictive power of this formulation is that one can generate a scale dependent HPA in the context of single field inflation for all the primordial modes including scalar and tensor fluctuations without introducing any additional parameters. This result can be seen as an indication of spontaneous breaking of $\mathcal{C}\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$ symmetry in an expanding Universe, if confirmed by future observations it would be a great leap in the subject of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
K. Kumar and J. Marto
Thu, 11 May 23
23/55
Comments: 13 pages, 2 figures, Based on the talk given at the workshop on “Tensions in Cosmology” in Corfu 2022. This manuscript is written for Proceedings of Science (PoS), Corfu 2022 and it is based on arXiv: 2209.03928 [gr-qc]