2023/05/10 by K. Sravan Kumar, Kumar, K. Sravan, João Pedro Marto +1
Physics and Astronomy · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2305.06057
The presence of CMB Hemispherical Asymmetry (HPA) challenges the current understanding of inflationary cosmology which does not generically predict the parity violation in the primordial correlations. In this paper, we shall review the recently proposed resolution to this based on a new formulation of quantizing inflationary fluctuations by focusing on the discrete spacetime transformations in a gravitational context. The predictive power of this formulation is that one can generate a scale dependent HPA in the context of single field inflation for all the primordial modes including scalar and tensor fluctuations without introducing any additional parameters. This result can be seen as an indication of spontaneous breaking of CPT symmetry in an expanding Universe, if confirmed by future observations it would be a great leap in the subject of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.