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Noncommutative geometry can provide effective description of physics at very short distances taking into account generic effects of quantum gravity. Inflation amplifies tiny quantum fluctuations in the early universe to macroscopic scales and may thus imprint high energy physics signatures in the cosmological perturbations that could be detected in the CMB. It is shown here that this can give rise to parity-violating modulations of the primordial spectrum and odd non-Gaussian signatures. The breaking of rotational invariance of the CMB provides constraints on the scale of noncommutativity that are competitive with the existing noncosmological bounds, and could explain the curious hemispherical asymmetry that has been claimed to be observed in the sky. This introduces also non-Gaussianity with peculiar shape-and scale-dependence, which in principle allows an independent cross-check of the presence of noncommutativity at inflation.
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Koivisto, T.S., Mota, D.F. CMB statistics in noncommutative inflation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 61 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2011)061
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