Back-reaction in massless de Sitter QFTs: holography, gravitational DBI action and f(R) gravity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/040zbMATH Open1492.83113arXiv2003.09435OpenAlexW3103702168MaRDI QIDQ5070282FDOQ5070282

Authors: Lukas T. Witkowski, Jewel K. Ghosh, Elias Kiritsis, F. Nitti 

Publication date: 11 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We employ gauge-gravity duality to study the backreaction effect of 4-dimensional large-$N$ quantum field theories on constant-curvature backgrounds, and in particular de Sitter space-time. The field theories considered are holographic QFTs, dual to RG flows between UV and IR CFTs. We compute the holographic QFT contribution to the gravitational effective action for 4d Einstein manifold backgrounds. We find that for a given value of the cosmological constant $lambda$, there generically exist two backreacted constant-curvature solutions, as long as $lambda<lambd{a}_{extrmmax}sim{M}_p^2/N^2$, otherwise no such solutions exist. Moreover, the backreaction effect interpolates between that of the UV and IR CFTs. We also find that, at finite cutoff, a holographic theory always reduces the bare cosmological constant, and this is the consequence of thermodynamic properties of the partition function of holographic QFTs on de Sitter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09435

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theory on curved spacestring theory and cosmologycosmological applications of theories with extra dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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