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We describe a class of spacetimes that are asymptotically de Sitter in the Poincare slicing. Assuming that a dS/CFT correspondence exists, we argue that these are gravity duals to a CFT on a circle leading to uniform energy-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Diptarka Das , Sumit R. Das , K. Narayan

The de Sitter state has a special symmetry: it is homogeneous, and its curvature is constant in space. Since all the points in the de Sitter space are equivalent, this state is described by local thermodynamics. This state has the local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-22 G. E. Volovik

In these lectures we describe how a theory of quantum gravity may be constructed in terms of a lattice formulation based on so-called causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). We discuss how the continuum limit can be obtained and how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-16 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We investigate several problems in relativity and particle physics where symmetries play a central role; in all cases geometric properties of Lie groups and their quotients are related to physical effects. The first part is concerned with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-04 Steffen Gielen

Hydrodynamics is a universal effective theory describing relaxation of quantum field theories towards equilibrium. Massive QFTs in de Sitter spacetime are never at equilibrium. We use holographic gauge theory/gravity correspondence to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-05 Alex Buchel

The aim of this manuscript is to review the studies about de Sitter solution and the null infinity of asymptotically flat and de Sitter space-times. Thus, after introducing the de Sitter space-time, the symmetry group is described. Also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-16 Djeyrane-Sophie Erfani , Hossein Shojaie

We study quantum gravity on $dS_{3}$ using the Chern-Simons formulation of three -dimensional gravity. We derive an exact expression for the partition function for quantum gravity on $dS_{3}$ in a Euclidean path integral approach. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 T. R. Govindarajan , R. K. Kaul , V. Suneeta

A framework conceptually based on the conformal techniques employed to study the structure of the gravitational field at infinity is set up in the context of loop quantum gravity to describe asymptotically anti-de Sitter quantum spacetimes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-30 Norbert Bodendorfer

We study quantum fields on spacetimes having a bifurcate Killing horizon by allowing the possibility that left- and right- (in-going and out-going) modes have different temperatures. We consider in particular the Rindler for both massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 E. T. Akhmedov , P. A. Anempodistov , K. V. Bazarov , D. V. Diakonov , U. Moschella

De Sitter space-time, essentially our own universe, is plagued by problems at the quantum level. Here we propose that Lorentzian de Sitter space-time is not fundamental but constitutes only an effective description of a more fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Carlo A. Trugenberger

We show that weak-coupled two-dimensional dilaton gravity on Anti-de Sitter space can be described by the dynamics of an open string. Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions for the string lead to two different realizations of the Anti-de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Mariano Cadoni , Marco Cavaglia'

The condensed matter analogs are useful for consideration of the phenomena related to the quantum vacuum. This is because in condensed matter we know physics both in the infrared and in the ultraviolet limits, while in particle physics and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 G. E. Volovik

It is known that de Sitter spacetime can be seen as the solution of field equation for completely isotropic matter. In the present paper a new class of exact solutions in spherical symmetry is found and discussed, such that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Roberto Giambo'

We discuss and extend some aspects pertaining to the canonical quantisation of JT gravity in de Sitter space, including the problem of time and the construction of a Hilbert space. We then extend this discussion to other two dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Indranil Dey , Kanhu Kishore Nanda , Akashdeep Roy , Sunil Kumar Sake , Sandip P. Trivedi

In these Lectures, I review various extensions of the Lambda-Cold Dark Matter model, characterized by additional light degrees of freedom in the dark sector. In order to reproduce the successful phenomenology of GR in the solar system,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Justin Khoury

You may have seen the words "topological recursion" mentioned in papers on matrix models, Hurwitz theory, Gromov-Witten theory, topological string theory, knot theory, topological field theory, JT gravity, cohomological field theory, free…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Vincent Bouchard

Pure de Sitter, anti de Sitter, and orthogonal gauge theories in four-dimensional Euclidean spacetime are studied. It is shown that, if the theory is asymptotically free and a dynamical mass is generated, then an effective geometry may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-11 R. F. Sobreiro , A. A. Tomaz , V. J. Vasquez Otoya

Perturbative gravity about global de Sitter space is subject to linearization-stability constraints. Such constraints imply that quantum states of matter fields couple consistently to gravity {\it only} if the matter state has vanishing de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Donald Marolf , Ian A. Morrison

In this paper we will analyse quantum field theory on de Sitter spacetime. We will analyse a general scalar and vector field theory on de Sitter spacetime. This is done by first calculating these propagators on four-Sphere and then…

We demonstrate in detail how the space of two-dimensional quantum field theories can be parametrized by off-shell states of a free closed string moving in a flat background. The dynamic equation corresponding to the condition of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Gregory Pelts