A Holographic framework for eternal inflation
Jun, 2006
53 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006) 086003
e-Print:
- hep-th/0606204 [hep-th]
Report number:
- SU-ITP-06-18,
- OIQP-06-07,
- UCB-PTH-06-12,
- LBNL-60518
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Abstract:
In this paper we provide some circumstantial evidence for a holographic duality between bubble nucleation in an eternally inflating universe and a Euclidean conformal field theory. The holographic correspondence (which is different than Strominger's dS/CFT duality) relates the decay of (3+1)-dimensional de Sitter space to a two-dimensional CFT. It is not associated with pure de Sitter space, but rather with Coleman-De Luccia bubble nucleation. Alternatively, it can be thought of as a holographic description of the open, infinite, FRW cosmology that results from such a bubble. The conjectured holographic representation is of a new type that combines holography with the Wheeler-DeWitt formalism to produce a Wheeler-DeWitt theory that lives on the spatial boundary of a k=-1 FRW cosmology. We also argue for a more ambitious interpretation of the Wheeler-DeWitt CFT as a holographic dual of the entire Landscape.- 98.80.Qc
- 11.25.Tq
- 11.25.Mj
- 04.62.+v
- inflation
- duality
- holography
- Wheeler-DeWitt equation
- space-time: Robertson-Walker
- Friedman model
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