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We consider the primordial gravity wave background produced by inflation. We compute the small anisotropy produced by the primordial scalar fluctuations.
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Alba, V., Maldacena, J. Primordial gravity wave background anisotropies. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 115 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2016)115
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