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Dwelling on de Sitter

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A careful reduction of the three-dimensional gravity to the Liouville description is performed, where all gauge fixing and on-shell conditions come from the definition of asymptotic de Sitter spaces. The roles of both past and future infinities are discussed and the conditions space-time evolution imposes on both Liouville fields are explicited. Space-times which correspond to non-equivalent profiles of the Liouville field at past and future infinities are shown to exist. The qualitative implications of this for any tentative dual theory are presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0208018,
  title  = {Dwelling on de Sitter},
  author = {Bruno Carneiro da Cunha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0208018},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTeX 4, 8 pages, v3: Small clarifications on sections III and IV and references added/corrected, v4: typos