Inflation in AdS/CFT

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DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/007zbMATH Open1226.83060arXivhep-th/0510046OpenAlexW3101331925WikidataQ59830392 ScholiaQ59830392MaRDI QIDQ648652FDOQ648652

Mukund Rangamani, Ben Freivogel, Robert C. Myers, Stephen H. Shenker, Alexander Maloney, Veronika E. Hubeny

Publication date: 28 November 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the AdS/CFT correspondence as a probe of inflation. We assume the existence of a string landscape containing at least one stable AdS vacuum and a (nearby) metastable de Sitter state. Standard arguments imply that the bulk physics in the vicinity of the AdS minimum is described by a boundary CFT. We argue that large enough bubbles of the dS phase, including those able to inflate, are described by mixed states in the CFT. Inflating degrees of freedom are traced over and do not appear explicitly in the boundary description. They nevertheless leave a distinct imprint on the mixed state. In the supergravity approximation, analytic continuation connects AdS/CFT correlators to dS/CFT correlators. This provides a framework for extracting further information as well. Our work also shows that no scattering process can create an inflating region, even by quantum tunneling, since a pure state can never evolve into a mixed state under unitary evolution.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510046





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