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Violation of the Rotational Invariance in the CMB Bispectrum
We investigate a statistical anisotropy on the Cosmic Microwave Background
(CMB) bispectrum, which can be generated from the primordial non-Gaussianity
induced by quantum fluctuations of a vector field. We find new configurations
in the multipole space of the CMB bispectrum given by and their permutations, which violate the
rotational invariance, such as an off-diagonal configuration in the CMB power
spectrum. We also find that in a model presented by Yokoyama and Soda (2008),
the amplitude of the statistically anisotropic bispectrum in the above
configurations becomes as large as that in other configurations such as . As a result, it might be possible to detect these
contributions in future experiments, which would give us novel information
about the physics of the early Universe.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in PT
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