Abstract
It has been argued that the power spectrum of the anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) may be effectively degenerate, namely that the observable spectrum does not determine a unique set of cosmological parameters. We describe the physical origin of this degeneracy and show that at small angular scales it is broken by gravitational lensing: effectively degenerate spectra become distinguishable at l ~ 3000 because lensing causes their damping tails to fall at different rates with increasing l. This effect also helps in distinguishing nearly degenerate power spectra such as those of mixed dark matter models. Forthcoming interferometer experiments should provide the means of measuringotherwise degenerate parameters at the 5-25% level.
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