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Holographic Resolution of Cosmological Singularities
Neil Turok
IPMU, 2009
with Ben Craps, Thomas Hertog
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* Motivation * Holographic cosmology * AdS5xS5 and AdS4 x S7
* Dual CFT * Quantum Singularity Resolution * Bounce and backreaction * Speculation
Caveats: work still in progress rests on unproven conjectures so far, under good calculational control only in a regime far from observation
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Concordance Inflationary Model
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this picture is very successful but theoretically problematic
* the singularity * inflation: ad hoc initial conditions fine-tuned potential * extreme fine tuning of Λ * other coincidence problems
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Was the singularity the beginning?
YES -> inflation needed -> tuning/IC problems -> many resort to anthropic principle -> “end of fundamental physics” NO -> pre-big bang epoch can play the same roles -> cyclic universe possible -> new solutions to Λ tuning problem -> dynamical selection of string vacua?
To answer the question, must go beyond GR -> quantum gravity: string theory, AdS/CFT
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holographic gravity Maldacena, Witten ...
t theory with gravity in spacetime bulk dual to a theory with no gravity on boundary! (a CFT)
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holographic cosmology Hertog+Horowitz
t generalized BCs (still AdS-invariant, but SUSY-breaking) allow the bulk to evolve to a singularity
what happens in the dual theory?
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holographic cosmology
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Generalised BCs correspond to adding a SUSY-breaking deformation to the CFT
Cosmological BCs are dual to a deformation which is unbounded below: schematically,
The cosmological singularity develops when φ runs to infinity on the boundary
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Does QFT with an unbounded negative potential make sense? * no ground state or equilibrium * but this may be just what we need for cosmology
* Boundary sphere finite -> homogeneous mode is quantum mechanical, not classical * Can define unitary boundary conditions at infinite φ , so-called “self-adjoint extensions” * WKB becomes exact at large φ, so can use the semiclassical approximation, described by complex classical solutions
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Our first focus was on AdS5xS5
Not realistic : a 5d cosmology but
Dual theory is N=4 SYM, SU(N) gauge group
Deformed potential is renormalizable and asymptotically free -> perturbation theory becomes reliable as singularity is approached
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Quantum mechanics of dual theory
Ψ(φ) Boundary condition at o o
Heuristic picture: quantum spread in φ keeps it away from the singularity Usual approach to SA extension: arbitrary phase enters = “location of brick wall”
φ
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NB: solution for localized wavepackets generically complex
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Inhomogeneous modes
quantum spreading keeps φ finite: complex solution generically avoids infinity
-> for generic values of final φ , have a UV cutoff in particle creation
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Dual theory is SYM with –f φ4 deformation. The associated coupling f is asymptotically free, but it runs at one loop, and leading order in large N, breaking scale invariance. This results in particle production across the bounce. Backreaction is not parametrically small and the calculation is not therefore under control Cannot conclude that 5d cosmology “bounces”
5d AdS cosmology Craps, Hertog, NT 2008, and in preparation
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Second problem: “brick wall” does not work nonlinearly in QFT
. latticize:
. . . . . φ n
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Analytic self-adjoint extension Wavefunction calculated with complex classical solutions -> trajectories on the Riemann sphere, naturally compactified at infinite φ
0
0 0
eg φ4 : φclassical ~ 1/(i ε –t )
Wavefunction leaves at + infinity, re-enters at – infinity Unitary, no arbitrary phase enters
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Brick wall: lattice model with 2 sites φ2
Fully nonlinear solution: no good continuum limit
φ1
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Analytic self-adjoint extension φ2
Fully nonlinear solution: good continuum limit
φ1
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AdS/CFT -> only very stringy regime is perturbative in dual CFT
Recent progress: Aharony,Bergman, Jefferis, Maldacena
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Cosmological deformation of ABJM
->
log(φ2)
UV fixed point (Bardeen, Moshe, Bander)
Renormalization: analog O(N) vector model
111 112 221 222
β ~1/N2
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Example of particle non-production:
Particle creation (in all modes) only occurs due to running of couplings, Bogoliubov coeffts ~ β ~ f/N6
Parametrically small: 4d cosmology bounces whereas 5d doesnt!
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* a laboratory for studying a bouncing • cosmology
* particle production suppressed due to - conformal invariance near singularity
Model is UV-complete
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Need to study strong coupling regime, but with NO arbitrary potential: nearly scale-invariant perturbations are automatically generated on the boundary nearly Gaussian small-amplitude (1/N6) adiabatic scalar slightly red (asymptotic freedom)
need to translate these into the bulk, but expect these properties to survive
Speculation: is this an alternative to inflation?
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Main prediction: no tensors, red tilt
Current limits on grav. waves, ns
ekpyrotic
Simple inflation
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