de Sitter Harmonies: Cosmological Spacetimes as Resonances
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-03-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The aim of this work is to provided the details of a calculation summarized in the recent paper by Maltz and Susskind which conjectured a potentially rigorous framework where the status of de Sitter space is the same as that of a resonance in a scattering process. The conjecture being that transition amplitudes between certain states with asymptotically supersymmetric flat vacua contain resonant poles characteristic metastable intermediate states. A calculation employing constrained instantons is presented that illustrates this idea.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.03491,
title = {de Sitter Harmonies: Cosmological Spacetimes as Resonances},
author = {Jonathan Maltz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.03491},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
18 pages, 8 figures, to appear in PRD