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Thermal effects in Ising Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-10-10 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider a real scalar field in de Sitter background and compute its thermal propagators. We propose that in a dS/CFT context, non-trivial thermal effects as seen by an 'out' observer can be encoded in the anomalous dimensions of the d=3d = 3 Ising model. One of these anomalous dimensions, the critical exponent η\eta, fixes completely a number of cosmological observables, which we compute

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@article{arxiv.2209.09938,
  title  = {Thermal effects in Ising Cosmology},
  author = {Nikos Irges and Antonis Kalogirou and Fotis Koutroulis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.09938},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

15 pages, 2 figures, version accepted for publication, clarifications regarding the thermal propagator added, general presentation improved, references added, typos corrected

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