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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.

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@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

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