The pre-inflationary vacuum in the cosmic microwave background

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2006-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612006v3

Phys.Rev.D76:063512,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, references added. Version submitted to PRL. (v3: 9 pages, 4 figures, detailed justification of Eq. 11 of v

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.063512

We consider the effects on the primordial power spectrum of a period of radiation-dominated expansion prior to the inflationary era. If inflation lasts a total of only 60 e-folds or so, the boundary condition for quantum modes cannot be taken in the short-wavelength limit as in the standard perturbation calculation. Instead, the boundary condition is set by the vacuum state of the prior radiation-dominated epoch, which only corresponds to the inflationary vacuum state in the ultraviolet limit. This altered vacuum state results in a modulation of the inflationary power spectrum. We calculate the modification to a best-fit model from the WMAP3 data set, and find that power is suppressed at large scales. The modified power spectrum is favored only very weakly by the data.

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