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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 2: Quantengravitation und Quantenkosmologie

GR 2.2: Talk

Monday, March 28, 2011, 17:05–17:25, 20.40: 101

Quantum gravitational contributions to the CMB anisotropy spectrum — •Manuel Krämer and Claus Kiefer — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937 Köln, Germany

We derive the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations in the framework of quantum cosmology. For this purpose, we perform a Born-Oppenheimer approximation to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for an inflationary universe with a scalar field. In this way we first recover the scale-invariant power spectrum that is found as an approximation in the simplest inflationary models. We then obtain quantum gravitational corrections to this spectrum and discuss whether they lead to measurable signatures in the CMB anisotropy spectrum.