Wednesday, February 1, 2012

1201.6434 (Jiro Soda)

Statistical Anisotropy from Anisotropic Inflation    [PDF]

Jiro Soda
We review an inflationary scenario with the anisotropic expansion rate. An anisotropic inflationary universe can be realized by a vector field coupled with an inflaton, which can be regarded as a counter example to the cosmic no-hair conjecture. We show generality of anisotropic inflation and derive a universal property. We formulate cosmological perturbation theory in anisotropic inflation. Using the formalism, we show anisotropic inflation gives rise to the statistical anisotropy in primordial fluctuations. We also explain a method to test anisotropic inflation using the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6434

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