Inflation and the dS/CFT Correspondence
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
It is speculated that the observed universe has a dual representation as renormalization group flow between two conformal fixed points of a three-dimensional Euclidean field theory. The infrared fixed point corresponds to the inflationary phase in the far past. The ultraviolet fixed point corresponds to a de Sitter phase dominated by the cosmological constant indicated in recent astronomical data. The monotonic decrease of the Hubble parameter corresponds to the irreversibility of renormalization group flow.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0110087,
title = {Inflation and the dS/CFT Correspondence},
author = {Andrew Strominger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0110087},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, references and footnote added