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Physical Review Letters 2017-07-18

Natural Covariant Planck Scale Cutoffs and the Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum

Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Achim Kempf, and Robert T. W. Martin

文献索引:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.031301

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摘要

We calculate the impact of quantum gravity–motivated ultraviolet cutoffs on inflationary predictions for the cosmic microwave background spectrum. We model the ultraviolet cutoffs fully covariantly to avoid possible artifacts of covariance breaking. Imposing these covariant cutoffs results in the production of small, characteristically k-dependent oscillations in the spectrum. The size of the effect scales linearly with the ratio of the Planck to Hubble lengths during inflation. Consequently, the relative size of the effect could be as large as one part in 105; i.e., eventual observability may not be ruled out.