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We propose a holographic description of four-dimensional single-scalar inflationary universes, and show how cosmological observables, such as the primordial power spectrum, are encoded in the correlation functions of a three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-19 Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

We identify a minisuperspace of complex deformations of ABJM theory for which the partition function specifies the amplitude of an eternally inflating universe. The boundary theory predicts that the bosonic bulk is effectively in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-15 Thomas Hertog , Jef Pauwels , Victoria Venken

The physics of de Sitter space is essential to our understanding of our cosmological past, present, and future. It forms the foundation for the statistical predictions of inflation in terms of quantum vacuum fluctuations that are being…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-13 Daniel Green

It has been argued that the only mathematically precise quantum descriptions of gravitating systems are from vantage points which allow an unbounded amount of information to be gathered. For an eternally inflating universe that means a hat,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-28 Daniel Harlow , Stephen H. Shenker , Douglas Stanford , Leonard Susskind

We perform the resummation of the infrared logarithms in the inflationary universe. Applying the renormalization group, we derive the stochastic equations as the effective theory at the horizon. We focus on the conformal zero mode to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-28 Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We interpret the Holographic Conjecture in terms of quantum bits (qubits). N-qubit states are associated with surfaces that are punctured in N points by spin networks' edges labeled by the spin-1/2 representation of SU(2), which are in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 P. A. Zizzi

It has recently been suggested that a strongly coupled phase of inflation may be described holographically in terms of a weakly coupled quantum field theory (QFT). Here, we explore the possibility that the wave function of an inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Jaume Garriga , Yuko Urakawa

We discuss the phenomenology of recently proposed holographic models of inflation, in which the very early universe is non-geometric and is described by a dual three-dimensional quantum field theory (QFT). We analyze models determined by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

The evolution of the universe is determined by its quantum state. The wave function of the universe obeys the constraints of general relativity and in particular the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDWE). For non-zero \Lambda, we show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 James B. Hartle , S. W. Hawking , Thomas Hertog

We explore aspects of the physics of de Sitter (dS) space that are relevant to holography with a positive cosmological constant. First we display a nonlocal map that commutes with the de Sitter isometries, transforms the bulk-boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-16 Vijay Balasubramanian , Jan de Boer , Djordje Minic

Holography is expected as one of the promising descriptions of quantum general relativity. We present a model for a cosmological system involving two holographic screens and find that their equilibrium exactly yields a standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Yi-Fu Cai , Jie Liu , Hong Li

The dynamic of holography between anti-de Sitter space holography and de Sitter holography is a very fascinating comparison, which provides many key insights into what we expect from holography in general. In this Essay, we highlight this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-16 Vaibhav Kalvakota , Aayush Verma

A stiff matter-dominated universe modeled by a free massless scalar field minimally coupled to gravity in a Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) geometry is quantized. Generalized complex-width gaussian superpositions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Felipe T. Falciano , Nelson Pinto-Neto , E. Sergio Santini

Using the dS/QFT correspondence in the context of inflation allows for the study of interesting, otherwise inaccessible physics. In particular, by studying inflation via its dual field theory at the boundary of the de Sitter space, it may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 Mafalda Dias

The work is an attempt to model a scenario of inflation in the framework of Anti de Sit- ter/Conformal Field theory (AdS/CFT) duality, a potentially complete nonperturbative description of quantum gravity via string theory. We look at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 David A. Lowe , Shubho Roy

Infra-Red scaling property of inflationary universe is in the same universality class of random walk. The two point correlators of the curvature perturbations are enhanced by the e-folding number N. The distribution function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 Yoshihisa Kitazawa

In de Sitter (dS) holography, both the dS/CFT correspondence and the dS static patch holography have been extensively studied. In these two holographic frameworks, the dual field theories are defined on spacelike and timelike boundaries,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-03 Jing-Cheng Chang , Yang He , Yu-Xiao Liu , Yuan Sun

The holographic principle is studied in the context of a $n+1$ dimensional radiation dominated closed Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe. The radiation is represented by a conformal field theory with a large central charge. Following…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Erik Verlinde

We discuss aspects of the holographic description of crunching AdS cosmologies. We argue that crunching FRW models with hyperbolic spatial sections are dual to semiclassical condensates in deformed de Sitter CFTs. De Sitter-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-30 J. L. F. Barbon , E. Rabinovici

In a holographic description of inflation, cosmological time evolution in the bulk is expected to correspond to the renomalization group (RG) flow in a dual boundary theory. Here, we analyze this expectation by computing the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Jaume Garriga , Yuko Urakawa