Primordial gravity wave background anisotropies

2015/12/09 by Vasyl Alba, Juan Maldacena · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Astrophysics #Cosmic microwave background #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geometry #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Gravitational wave #Gravitational wave background #Inflation (cosmology) #Physics #Primordial fluctuations #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Theoretical physics #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep03(2016)115

5 pages, 2 figures, references corrected

arxiv created 2015/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2016/03/01 · arxiv updated 2016/04/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

We consider the primordial gravity wave background produced by inflation. We compute the small anisotropy produced by the primordial scalar fluctuations.

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