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Item Large scale anomalies in the CMB and non-Gaussianity in bouncing cosmologies(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021) Agullo, I.; Kranas, D.; Sreenath, V.We propose that several of the anomalies that have been observed at large angular scales in the CMB have a common origin in a cosmic bounce that took place before the inflationary era. The bounce introduces a new physical scale in the problem, which breaks the almost scale invariance of inflation. As a result, the state of scalar perturbations at the onset of inflation is no longer the Bunch–Davies vacuum, but it rather contains excitations and non-Gaussianity, which are larger for infrared modes. We argue that the combined effect of these excitations and the correlations between CMB modes and longer wavelength perturbations, can account for the observed power suppression, for the dipolar asymmetry, and it can also produce a preference for odd-parity correlations. The model can also alleviate the tension in the lensing amplitude AL. We adopt a phenomenological viewpoint by considering a family of bounces characterized by a couple of parameters. We identify the minimum set of ingredients needed for our ideas to hold, and point out examples of theories in the literature where these conditions are met. © 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd Printed in the UKItem Cosmic Tango Between the Very Small and the Very Large: Addressing CMB Anomalies Through Loop Quantum Cosmology(Frontiers Media S.A., 2021) Ashtekar, A.; Gupt, B.; Sreenath, V.While the standard, six-parameter, spatially flat (Formula presented.) model has been highly successful, certain anomalies in the cosmic microwave background bring out a tension between this model and observations. The statistical significance of any one anomaly is small. However, taken together, the presence of two or more of them imply that according to standard inflationary theories we live in quite an exceptional Universe. We revisit the analysis of the PLANCK collaboration using loop quantum cosmology, where an unforeseen interplay between the ultraviolet and the infrared makes the primordial power spectrum scale dependent at very small k. Consequently, we are led to a somewhat different (Formula presented.) Universe in which anomalies associated with large scale power suppression and the lensing amplitude are both alleviated. The analysis also leads to new predictions for future observations. This article is addressed both to cosmology and loop quantum gravity communities, and we have attempted to make it self-contained. © Copyright © 2021 Ashtekar, Gupt and Sreenath.