A Holographic framework for eternal inflation

Jun, 2006
53 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006) 086003
e-Print:
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