Cosmic Evolution from Phase Transition of Three-Dimensional Flat Space

May 13, 2013
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 111 (2013) 18, 181301
  • Published: Oct 28, 2013
e-Print:
Report number:
  • TUW-13-06

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Abstract: (APS)
Flat space cosmology spacetimes are exact time-dependent solutions of three-dimensional gravity theories, such as Einstein gravity or topologically massive gravity. We exhibit a novel kind of phase transition between these cosmological spacetimes and the Minkowski vacuum. At sufficiently high temperature, (rotating) hot flat space tunnels into a universe described by flat space cosmology.
Note:
  • 5 pp, v2: removed Tolman factor from the discussion and corrected footnote [40]; essentially matches published version in PRL
  • 04.60.Kz
  • 04.60.Rt
  • 04.70.Dy
  • 11.25.Tq
  • 98.80.Bp
  • gravitation: massive
  • solution: time dependence
  • temperature: high
  • mass: topological
  • critical phenomena