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De Sitter Holography and the Cosmic Microwave Background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We interpret cosmological evolution holographically as a renormalisation group flow in a dual Euclidean field theory, as suggested by the conjectured dS/CFT correspondence. Inflation is described by perturbing around the infra-red fixed point of the dual field theory. The spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation is determined in terms of scaling violations in the field theory. The dark energy allows similar, albeit less predictive, considerations. We discuss the cosmological fine-tuning problems from the holographic perspective.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0202127,
  title  = {De Sitter Holography and the Cosmic Microwave Background},
  author = {Finn Larsen and Jan Pieter van der Schaar and Robert G. Leigh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0202127},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, 2 figures, uses JHEP style files; corrected and added references