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Massive holographic QFTs in de Sitter

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-06-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study strongly coupled mass-deformed-CFT on a fixed de Sitter spacetime in three dimensions via holography. We elucidate the global causal structure of the four-dimensional spacetime dual to the de Sitter invariant vacuum state. The conformal boundaries of de Sitter appear as spacelike defects sourced by the mass deformation, which extend into the bulk as curvature singularities in AdS. We compute all one- and two-point functions of the deformed-CFT stress tensor and a scalar operator order-by-order in the mass deformation for a simple holographic model. These correlation functions admit a spectral representation as a sum of simple poles corresponding to normalisable modes in the bulk.

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@article{arxiv.2112.14639,
  title  = {Massive holographic QFTs in de Sitter},
  author = {José Manuel Penín and Kostas Skenderis and Benjamin Withers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.14639},
  year   = {2022}
}

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37 pages, 4 figures. Published version