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VOLUME 57 (1993) | ISSUE 10 |
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New restrictions on spatial topology of the universe from microwave background temperature fluctuations
Starobinsky A.A.
If the Universe has the topology of a 3-torus (X3), then it follows from recent data on large-scale temperature fluctuations AT/T of the cosmic microwave background that either the minimal size of the torus is at least of the order of the present cosmological horizon, or the large-scale AT jT pattern should have a symmetry plane (in case of the effective T1 topology) or a symmetry axis (in case of the effective T2 topology), the latter possibility being probably excluded by the data.
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