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Matrix Big Brunch

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Following the holographic description of linear dilaton null Cosmologies with a Big Bang in terms of Matrix String Theory put forward by Craps, Sethi and Verlinde, we propose an extended background describing a Universe including both Big Bang and Big Crunch singularities. This belongs to a class of exact string backgrounds and is perturbative in the string coupling far away from the singularities, both of which can be resolved using Matrix String Theory. We provide a simple theory capable of describing the complete evolution of this closed Universe.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0702093,
  title  = {Matrix Big Brunch},
  author = {J. Bedford and C. Papageorgakis and D. Rodriguez-Gomez and J. Ward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0702093},
  year   = {2008}
}

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15 pages, no figures. References added