Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 33, No. 7, July 2002, page 1729


Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Topology of the Universe

M. Demianski, A.G. Doroshkevich

We show that the presently observed anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation already restricts the size of the fundamental domain. It turns out that if the Universe is multiply connected then the size of the fundamental domain is comparable or larger than the diameter of the surface of last scattering.

PACS numbers: 04.20.Gz, 98.70.Vc


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