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A stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves may substantially contribute, via the SachsWolfe effect, to the large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies recently detected by COBE. This implies a bias in any resulting determination of the primordial amplitude of density fluctuations. We consider the constraints imposed on n < 1 ("tilted") power-law fluctuation spectra, taking into account the contribution from both scalar and tensor waves, as predicted by power-law inflation. The gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies generally reduces the required rms level of mass fluctuation, thereby increasing the linear bias parameter, even in models where the spectral index is close to the Harrison-Zel'dovich value n = 1. This "gravitational wave bias" helps to reconcile the predictions of CDM models with observations on pairwise galaxy velocity dispersion on small scales.
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