Lorentzian Condition in Holographic Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-02-01 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We derive a sufficient set of conditions on the Euclidean boundary theory in dS/CFT for it to predict classical, Lorentzian bulk evolution at large spatial volumes. Our derivation makes use of a canonical transformation to express the bulk wave function at large volume in terms of the sources of the dual partition function. This enables a sharper formulation of dS/CFT. The conditions under which the boundary theory predicts classical bulk evolution are stronger than the criteria usually employed in quantum cosmology. We illustrate this in a homogeneous isotropic minisuperspace model of gravity coupled to a scalar field in which we identify the ensemble of classical histories explicitly.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1607.07471,
title = {Lorentzian Condition in Holographic Cosmology},
author = {Thomas Hertog and Ruben Monten and Yannick Vreys},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07471},
year = {2017}
}
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34 pages, 6 figures, revtex4