Inflation versus cyclic predictions for spectral tilt |
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Authors: | Khoury Justin Steinhardt Paul J Turok Neil |
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Affiliation: | ISCAP, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA. |
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Abstract: | We present a nearly model-independent estimate that yields the predictions of a class of simple inflationary and ekpyrotic or cyclic models for the spectral tilt of the primordial density inhomogeneities that enables us to compare the two scenarios. Remarkably, we find that the two produce an identical result, n(s) approximately 0.95. For inflation, the same estimate predicts a ratio of tensor to scalar contributions to the low l multipoles of the microwave background anisotropy of T/S approximately 20%; the tensor contribution is negligible for ekpyrotic or cyclic models, as shown in earlier papers. |
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