Genuine Cosmic Hair
Aug 16, 2016
20 pages
Published in:
- Class.Quant.Grav. 34 (2017) 4, 045003
- Published: Jan 20, 2017
e-Print:
- 1608.04641 [hep-th]
Report number:
- ACFI-T16-21
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Abstract: (IOP)
We show that asymptotically future de Sitter (AFdS) spacetimes carry ‘genuine’ cosmic hair, information that is analogous to the mass and angular momentum of asymptotically flat spacetimes and that characterizes how an AFdS spacetime approaches its asymptotic form. We define new ‘cosmological tension’ charges associated with future asymptotic spatial translation symmetries, which are analytic continuations of the ADM mass and tensions of asymptotically planar AdS spacetimes, and which measure the leading anisotropic corrections to the isotropic, exponential de Sitter expansion rate. A cosmological Smarr relation, holding for AFdS spacetimes having exact spatial translation symmetry, is derived. This formula relates cosmological tension, which is evaluated at future infinity, to properties of the cosmology at early times, together with a ‘cosmological volume’ contribution that is analogous to the thermodynamic volume of AdS black holes. Smarr relations for different spatial directions imply that the difference in expansion rates between two directions at late times is related in a simple way to their difference at early times. Hence information about the very early universe can be inferred from cosmic hair, which is potentially observable in a late time de Sitter phase. Cosmological tension charges and related quantities are evaluated for Kasner–de Sitter spacetimes, which serve as our primary examples.Note:
- 25 pages
- symmetry: translation
- space-time: anti-de Sitter
- space-time: de Sitter
- black hole: anti-de Sitter
- hair
- cosmological model
- angular momentum
- thermodynamical
- anisotropy
- tension
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