CMB, Quantum Fluctuations and the Predictive Power of Inflation

Abstract

I comment on the predictive power of inflation and recent CMB measurements.

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• Figure 1: Spectrum of relative curvature fluctuations, $P(k)/R^{(0)}$, plotted as a function of the wave number $k$. Dashed lines - spectrum of vacuum fluctuations which is specified at some initial time $\if@compatibility \mathchar"0111 {} \mathchar"0111 _0$; solid line - the spectrum into which the vacuum spectrum transforms at some later time.