Universe explosions

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2013)047zbMATH Open1342.83231arXiv1209.5222OpenAlexW3038125165MaRDI QIDQ737338FDOQ737338

Authors: R. Brustein, Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: A scenario for a quantum big crunch to big bang transition is proposed. We first clarify the similarities between this transition and the final stages of black hole evaporation. The black hole and the universe are thought of as quantum states. The importance of an external observer for understanding the big crunch to big bang transition is emphasized. Then, relying on the similarities between the black hole and the universe, we propose that the transition should be described as an explosion that connects the contracting phase to the expanding one. The explosion occurs when entropy bounds are saturated, or equivalently when the states cease to be semiclassically (meta)stable. We discuss our scenario in three examples: collapsing dust, a brane universe falling into a bulk black hole in anti-de Sitter space, and a contracting universe filled with a negative cosmological constant and a small amount of matter. We briefly discuss the late time observables that may carry some information about the state of the universe before the transition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5222

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesAdS-CFT correspondencespacetime singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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