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In this talk we present a method to derive the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations in the framework of quantum cosmology. For this purpose, we perform a Born-Oppenheimer approximation to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for an inflationary universe with a scalar field. In this way we first recover the scale-invariant power spectrum that is found as an approximation in the simplest inflationary models. We then obtain quantum gravitational corrections to this spectrum and discuss whether they lead to measurable signatures in the CMB anisotropy spectrum.

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Manuel Krämer, Universität zu Köln
Seminarraum Theorie
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