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dS/dS and $T\bar T$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-11-21 v1

Abstract

The TTˉT\bar T deformation of a conformal field theory has a dual description as a cutoff AdS3AdS_3 spacetime, at least at the level of pure 3d gravity. We generalize this deformation in such a way that it builds up a patch of bulk dS3dS_3 spacetime instead. At each step along the trajectory in the space of 2d2d theories, the theory is deformed by a specific combination of TTˉT\bar T and the two-dimensional cosmological constant. This provides a concrete holographic dual for the warped throat on the gravity side of the dS/dS duality, at leading order in large central charge. We also analyze a sequence of excitations of this throat on both sides of the duality, as well as the entanglement entropy. Our results point toward a mechanism for obtaining de Sitter solutions starting from seed conformal field theories with AdS duals.

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@article{arxiv.1811.07965,
  title  = {dS/dS and $T\bar T$},
  author = {Victor Gorbenko and Eva Silverstein and Gonzalo Torroba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.07965},
  year   = {2018}
}

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27 pages, 2 figures

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