Holography of Little Inflation

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2015.03.019zbMATH Open1328.83205arXiv1501.01759OpenAlexW2057146793MaRDI QIDQ902035FDOQ902035

Authors: Brett McInnes 

Publication date: 6 January 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For several crucial microseconds of its early history, the Universe consisted of a Quark-Gluon Plasma. As it cooled during this era, it traced out a trajectory in the quark matter phase diagram. The form taken by this trajectory is not known with certainty, but is of great importance: it determines, for example, whether the cosmic plasma passed through a first-order phase change during the transition to the hadron era, as has recently been suggested by advocates of the "Little Inflation" model. Just before this transition, the plasma was strongly coupled and therefore can be studied by holographic techniques. We show that holography imposes a strong constraint (taking the form of a bound on the baryonic chemical potential relative to the temperature) on the domain through which the cosmic plasma could pass as it cooled, with important consequences for Little Inflation. In fact, we find that holography applied to Little Inflation implies that the cosmic plasma must have passed quite close to the quark matter critical point, and might therefore have been affected by the associated fluctuation phenomena.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01759

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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