Imprint of spatial curvature on inflation power spectrum

Details Imprint of spatial curvature on inflation power spectrum Imprint of spatial curvature on inflation power spectrum

2006-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609349v4

Phys.Rev.D78:043534,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 4 figures, revtex4; section on comparison with WMAP3 data added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043534

If the universe had a large curvature before inflation there is a deviation from the scale invariant perturbations of the inflaton at the beginning of inflation. This may have some effect on the CMB anisotropy at large angular scales. We calculate the density perturbations for both open and closed universe cases using the Bunch-Davies vacuum condition on the initial state. We use our power spectrum to calculate the temperature anisotropy spectrum and compare the results with the WMAP three year data. We find that our power spectrum gives a lower quadrupole anisotropy when $\Omega-1 >0$, but matches the temperature anisotropy calculated from the standard Ratra-Peebles power spectrum at large $l$. The determination of spatial curvature from temperature anisotropy data is not much affected by the different power spectra which arise from the choice of different boundary conditions for the inflaton perturbation.

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