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Cosmology inside a black hole: adding matter on the brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Braneworlds inside an AdS black hole provide simple models where a closed cosmology can be encoded in a dual field theory. Previous studies have focused on pure-tension branes, where the only matter in the cosmology is that dual to the holographic bulk. We consider models with additional explicit matter fields on the brane. Both for perfect fluid matter and for an axion field on the brane, we show that this can avoid a self-intersection problem in the Euclidean construction of such geometries in higher dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2504.16997,
  title  = {Cosmology inside a black hole: adding matter on the brane},
  author = {José L. F. Barbón and Ayan K. Patra and Juan F. Pedraza and Simon F. Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16997},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 5 figures; v2: references added, minor edits

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