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Constraining the Topology of the Universe

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The first year data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe are used to place stringent constraints on the topology of the Universe. We search for pairs of circles on the sky with similar temperature patterns along each circle. We restrict the search to back-to-back circle pairs, and to nearly back-to-back circle pairs, as this covers the majority of the topologies that one might hope to detect in a nearly flat universe. We do not find any matched circles with radius greater than 25 degrees. For a wide class of models, the non-detection rules out the possibility that we live in a universe with topology scale smaller than 24 Gpc.

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The yes boundaries wavefunctions of the universe

hep-th · 2026-04-11 · conditional · novelty 6.5

A constrained product of two dressed one-sided dS quantum systems yields a holographic dual whose top-band TFD and lower tall states capture the future wedge and overlapping causal wedges.

Inflation and topology from the no-boundary state

hep-th · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0 · 2 refs

Switching to 3-torus topology and summing SL(3,Z) geometries via automorphic forms makes the no-boundary wavefunction favor large inflating universes with over 250 e-folds, plus CMB corrections from torus moduli.

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  • The yes boundaries wavefunctions of the universe hep-th · 2026-04-11 · conditional · none · ref 64

    A constrained product of two dressed one-sided dS quantum systems yields a holographic dual whose top-band TFD and lower tall states capture the future wedge and overlapping causal wedges.

  • Inflation and topology from the no-boundary state hep-th · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 44 · 2 links · internal anchor

    Switching to 3-torus topology and summing SL(3,Z) geometries via automorphic forms makes the no-boundary wavefunction favor large inflating universes with over 250 e-folds, plus CMB corrections from torus moduli.