A No-Truncation Approach to Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
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We offer a method of calculating the source term in the line-of-sight integral for cosmic microwave background anisotropies without using a truncated partial-wave expansion in the Boltzmann hierarchy. ∗Electronic address: [email protected]
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