Nearly scale-invariant power spectrum and quantum cosmological perturbations in the gravity's rainbow scenario

TL;DR

This paper explores the gravity's rainbow scenario as an alternative to inflation for explaining the universe's flatness and horizon problems, analyzing quantum fluctuations and constraining model parameters with observational data.

Contribution

It introduces the gravity's rainbow scenario as a new framework for early universe cosmology and estimates key parameters using Planck and WMAP data.

Findings

The scalar power spectrum is nearly scale-invariant.

Estimated rainbow index λ ≈ 2.933 with high precision.

Constrained energy scale M relative to Planck mass.

Abstract

We propose the gravity's rainbow scenario as a possible alternative of the inflation paradigm to account for the flatness and horizon problems. We focus on studying the cosmological scalar perturbations which are seeded by the quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. The scalar power spectrum is expected to be nearly scale-invariant. We estimate the rainbow index $\lambda$ and energy scale $M$ in the gravity's rainbow scenario by analyzing the Planck temperature and WMAP polarization datasets. The constraints on them are given by $\lambda=2.933\pm0.012$ and $\ln (10^5M/M_p)= -0.401^{+0.457}_{-0.451}$ at the $68\%$ confidence level.