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Cosmological implications on the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation, of a Kalb–Ramond field interacting with gauge fields and gravity as dictated by quantum consistency of heterotic string theory are surveyed. A parity violating augmentation going beyond the dictates of string theory is shown to lead to possible appearance of a B mode generated in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the post-last scattering epoch. This generation of the B mode of CMB appears to be dramatic when the augmentation is embedded within a Randall–Sundrum braneworld scenario of the first kind.
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MAJUMDAR, P. Kalb–Ramond fields and the CMBR. Pramana - J Phys 86, 335–341 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-015-1153-y
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