A counterexample to claimed COBE constraints on compact toroidal universe models

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Roukema, BF [1 ]
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[1] Inter Univ Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
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10.1088/0264-9381/17/19/301
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P1 [天文学];
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It has been suggested that if the Universe satisfies a flat, multiply connected, perturbed Friedmann-Lemaitre model, then cosmic microwave background data from the COBE satellite implies that the minimum size of the injectivity diameter (shortest closed spatial geodesic) must be larger than about a of the horizon diameter. To show that this claim is misleading, a simple T-2 X R universe model of injectivity diameter a quarter of this size, i.e. a tenth of the horizon diameter, is shown to be consistent with COBE four-year observational maps of the cosmic microwave background. This is done using the identified circles principle.
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