CMB anisotropies in pre-big bang cosmology

Abstract

We present an alternative scenario for cosmic structure formation where initial fluctuations are due to Kalb-Ramond axions produced during a pre-big bang phase of inflation. We investigate whether this scenario, where the fluctuations are induced by seeds and therefore are of isocurvature nature, can be brought in agreement with present observations by a suitable choice of cosmological parameters. We also discuss several observational signatures which can distinguish axion seeds from standard inflationary models.

Comments: To appear in "Cosmology and Particle Physics" eds J. Garcia-Bellido, R. Durrer, and M. Shaposhnikov, 4 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX uses aipproc2.sty (included), corrected some typos