Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-06-17
Astrophys.J.694:151-153,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/694/1/151
The possibility to constrain fractal space dimensionality from Astrophysics and other areas is briefly reviewed. Assuming such dimensionality to be $3 + \epsilon$, a limit to $\epsilon$ can be inferred from COBE satellite data. The available data for the cosmic microwave background radiation spectrum are fitted by a Planck's radiation distribution generalized to non integer space dimensionality. Our analysis shows that the shape of the CMBR spectrum, which does not depend on the absolute normalization, is correctly described from this distribution provided the absolute temperature is equal to 2.726 $\pm$ $0.003\times 10^{-2}$ K and $\epsilon = - (0.957 \pm 0.006) \times 10^{-5}$. This value for $\epsilon$ is shown to be consistent with what is found on a very different spatial scale based on a quantum field phenomenon. The $|\epsilon|$ is interpreted as an upper limit for how much space dimensionality could have deviated from three. In other words, this is the maximum fluctuation space dimensionality should have experienced in a spatial and temporal scale compared to that of the decoupling era.
Caruso Francisco
Oguri Vitor
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