Can one hear the shape of the Universe?

Preprint

16 December 2004

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0412407

Abstract

It is shown that the recent observations of NASA's explorer mission "Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe" (WMAP) hint that our Universe may possess a non-trivial topology. As an example we discuss the Picard space which is stretched out into an infinitely long horn but with finite volume.

Keywords

ANISOTROPY PROBE
INFINITELY LONG
FINITE VOLUME
STRETCHED
MICROWAVE
TOPOLOGY
MISSION
SPACE
HEAR

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Version 1, 2004-12-16, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 94 (2), 021301.

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