English

Holographic de Sitter Spacetime and Quantum Corrections to The Cosmological Constant

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-04-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A dynamical aspect of quantum gravity on de Sitter spacetime is investigated by holography or the dS/CFT correspondence. We show that de Sitter spacetime emerges from a free Sp(N) vector model by complexifying the ghost fields and flowing them in parallel to the imaginary axis. We confirm that the emergence of de Sitter spacetime is ensured by conformal symmetry. We also compute the quantum corrections to the cosmological constant up to the next-to-leading order of the 1/N expansion in a proposed holographic approach. As a result the sub-leading corrections have the opposite sign to the classical value.This implies that a quantum gravity on de Sitter spacetime is perturbatively stable and quantum effects make the universe flatter and the cosmological constant smaller.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.00697,
  title  = {Holographic de Sitter Spacetime and Quantum Corrections to The Cosmological Constant},
  author = {Shuichi Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00697},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

19 pages, v2: minor improvements, references added