Modifications of CMB Temperature and Polarization Quadrupole Signals in Thurston Spacetimes

TL;DR

This paper investigates how Thurston geometries, as models of anisotropic universes, influence the large-scale temperature and polarization signals in the CMB, potentially explaining observed isotropy anomalies.

Contribution

It introduces a formalism to analyze CMB signals in Thurston spacetimes and explores their effects on temperature and polarization patterns, linking geometry with observable anisotropies.

Findings

Thurston geometries produce distinctive CMB temperature and polarization patterns.

Spatial curvature influences the symmetry and evolution of these patterns.

The study isolates specific Thurston geometries based on their CMB signatures.

Abstract

Recent cosmological tests have discovered a fresh new set of anomalies in the large-scale isotropy of the universe. Motivated thus by the numerous pieces of evidence for large-scale cosmic isotropy violation with the advent of the 'precision cosmology' era, we are led to explore the viability of anisotropic Thurston geometries, described in William Thurston's geometrization conjecture. In this work, we examine the coherent temperature and polarization signals generated in the CMB sky by such geometries. We begin with introducing Thurston spacetimes as our background model and the formalism we use to obtain the patterns. We then construct a set of transfer equations relative to a given background and solve them for each spacetime geometry. We finally discuss the role of spatial curvature in these FLRW limiting models along with their underlying geometry, and attempt to establish some general results on the symmetries of the patterns produced by their time evolution in terms of the Stokes parameters P, Q, U and V. We show the evolution of temperature and polarization amplitudes in terms of such Stokes parameters at different timestamps and attempt to isolate individual Thurston geometries.