Nearly scale-invariant power spectrum and quantum cosmological perturbations in the gravity's rainbow scenario

preprint2015arXivOpen access

Abstract

We propose the gravity's rainbow scenario as a possible alternative of the inflation paradigm to account for the flatness and horizon problems. We focus on studying the cosmological scalar perturbations which are seeded by the quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. The scalar power spectrum is expected to be nearly scale-invariant. We estimate the rainbow index λλ and energy scale MM in the gravity's rainbow scenario by analyzing the Planck temperature and WMAP polarization datasets. The constraints on them are given by λ=2.933±0.012λ=2.933\pm0.012 and ln⁡(105M/Mp)=−0.401−0.451+0.457\ln (10^5M/M_p)= -0.401^{+0.457}_{-0.451} at the 68%68\% confidence level.

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