Holographic Multiverse
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-01-16 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We explore the idea that the dynamics of the inflationary multiverse is encoded in its future boundary, where it is described by a lower dimensional theory which is conformally invariant in the UV. We propose that a measure for the multiverse, which is needed in order to extract quantitative probabilistic predictions, can be derived in terms of the boundary theory by imposing a UV cutoff. In the inflationary bulk, this is closely related (though not identical) to the so-called scale factor cutoff measure.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.4257,
title = {Holographic Multiverse},
author = {J. Garriga and A. Vilenkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4257},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
23 pages, 4 figures. Replaced to match published version