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Holography, Diffeomorphisms, and Scaling Violations in the CMB

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We analyze diffeomorphism invariance in inflationary spacetimes regulated by a boundary at late time. We present the action for quadratic fluctuations in the presence of a boundary, and verify that it is gauge invariant precisely when the correct local counterterms are included. The scaling behavior of bulk correlation functions at the boundary is determined by Callan-Symanzik equations which predict scaling violations in agreement with the standard inflationary predictions for spectral indices of the CMB.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402050,
  title  = {Holography, Diffeomorphisms, and Scaling Violations in the CMB},
  author = {Finn Larsen and Robert McNees},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402050},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

35+1 pages; added reference in the Introduction, corrected typos

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