One Object: Hemispherical Asymmetry and the Low Multipoles in the Bounce Framework
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Paper 3 of 3 in the CMB anomalies series. In the bounce framework the large-angle anomalies are faces of one object - an inherited axis, a founding profile, a founding sign, and a cut-born shear minority - and they stand or fall against one parameter set. This paper grades the faces not covered by Papers 1 and 2. Alignment: derived (the shared axis is the profile's identity), with the m-structure repair quantified in Paper 1. Low quadrupole (power ratio 0.215) and the odd-parity preference: constrained - the identification with the same founding profile is derived, while the signs and sizes await the marking law and the transfer. Hemispherical asymmetry: failed in full - the dipole-modulation axis sits at 91.12 degrees to the founding axis, and no reading of the profile produces its axis; the reopening condition is named (a derivation that determines the cut-born shear's azimuthal phase). Because the faces are projections of one object, the framework's exposure is joint: it can be falsified in one place, which is its answer to the a-posteriori debate. Deposited manuscript: register-corrected version (wording only; every number unchanged).
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225450109