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Paper   IPM / Physic / 13490
School of Physics
Title:   Statistical Anisotropies in Gravitational Waves in Solid Inflation
Author(s):
 1 M. Akhshik 2 R. Emami 3 H. Firouzjahi 4 Y. Wang
Status:   Preprint
Journal:
Year:  2014
Supported by:  IPM
Abstract:
Solid inflation can support a long period of anisotropic inflation. We calculate the statistical anisotropies in the scalar and tensor power spectra and their cross-correlation in anisotropic solid inflation. The tensor-scalar cross-correlation can either be positive or negative, which impacts the statistical anisotropies of the TT and TB spectra in CMB map more significantly compared with the tensor self-correlation. The tensor power spectrum contains potentially comparable contributions from quadrupole and octopole angular patterns, which is different from the power spectra of scalar, the cross-correlation or the scalar bispectrum, where the quadrupole type statistical anisotropy dominates over octopole.