Statistical anisotropies in gravitational waves in solid inflation

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Published 5 September 2014 © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
, , Citation Mohammad Akhshik et al JCAP09(2014)012 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/09/012

1475-7516/2014/09/012

Abstract

Solid inflation can support a long period of anisotropic inflation. We calculate the statistical anisotropies in the scalar and tensor power spectra and their cross-correlation in anisotropic solid inflation. The tensor-scalar cross-correlation can either be positive or negative, which impacts the statistical anisotropies of the TT and TB spectra in CMB map more significantly compared with the tensor self-correlation. The tensor power spectrum contains potentially comparable contributions from quadrupole and octopole angular patterns, which is different from the power spectra of scalar, the cross-correlation or the scalar bispectrum, where the quadrupole type statistical anisotropy dominates over octopole.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2014/09/012