WMAP First Year Sky Map: Hints of Poincare Dodecahedral Topology
arXiv:astro-ph/0602401 · doi:10.1063/1.2399693
Abstract
Several analyses of the cosmic microwave background map made by the satellite WMAP suggest that the global shape of a spatial section of the Universe is that of a Poincare dodecahedral space. A summary of some of these analyses and a description of independent tests which should be able to either increase confidence in the hypothesis or else refute it to extremely high significance will be presented.
v1 submitted to Proceedings of the Albert Einstein Century International Conference, held in Paris, France, July 18-22, 2005 - after it is published, it will be found at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/, v2 has minor correction to one reference