Pre-inflationary genesis with CMB B-mode polarization

Abstract

Recent B-mode polarization observation seems to imply the tensor tilt nT 1 at large angular scale, if the primordial signal is dominated. We show that for a primordial universe, which is in a slowly expanding genesis phase before the slow-roll inflation, the primordial tensor spectrum will get a large-scale cutoff, i.e. nT 1 at large scales while nT 0 at small scale. We find that this inflationary scenario not only may be consistent with the observation, but also predicts a large-scale anomaly in BB power spectrum, i.e. due to the large suppression of tensor perturbation amplitude we will hardly see the reionization bump at low-l, which may be falsified by the Planck polarization data.

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