Well-proportioned universes suppress CMB quadrupole

Details Well-proportioned universes suppress CMB quadrupole Well-proportioned universes suppress CMB quadrupole

2003-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312312v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 258

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

v1: 10 pages, 1 figure. v2: improved exposition of competing mode-suppression and mode-enhancement effects, coincides with pub

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07922.x

A widespread myth asserts that all small universe models suppress the CMB quadrupole. In actual fact, some models suppress the quadrupole while others elevate it, according to whether their low-order modes are weak or strong relative to their high-order modes. Elementary geometrical reasoning shows that a model's largest dimension determines the rough value ell_min at which the CMB power spectrum ell(ell + 1)C_ell/(2pi) effectively begins; for cosmologically relevant models, ell_min < 4. More surprisingly, elementary geometrical reasoning shows that further reduction of a model's smaller dimensions -- with its largest dimension held fixed -- serves to elevate modes in the neighborhood of ell_min relative to the high-ell portion of the spectrum, rather than suppressing them as one might naively expect. Thus among the models whose largest dimension is comparable to or less than the horizon diameter, the low-order C_ell tend to be relatively weak in well-proportioned spaces (spaces whose dimensions are approximately equal in all directions) but relatively strong in oddly-proportioned spaces (spaces that are significantly longer in some directions and shorter in others). We illustrate this principle in detail for the special cases of rectangular 3-tori and spherical spaces. We conclude that well-proportioned spaces make the best candidates for a topological explanation of the low CMB quadrupole observed by COBE and WMAP.

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