Wednesday, November 16, 2011

1101.5391 (Martin Bojowald et al.)

Observational constraints on loop quantum cosmology    [PDF]

Martin Bojowald, Gianluca Calcagni, Shinji Tsujikawa
In the inflationary scenario of loop quantum cosmology in the presence of inverse-volume corrections, we give analytic formulas for the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations convenient to compare with observations. Since inverse-volume corrections can provide strong contributions to the running spectral indices, inclusion of terms higher than the second-order runnings in the power spectra is crucially important. Using the recent data of cosmic microwave background and other cosmological experiments, we place bounds on the quantum corrections.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5391

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