PIRSA:11070018

Inflationary Cosmology: A Holographic Perspective

McFadden, P. (2011). Inflationary Cosmology: A Holographic Perspective. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/11070018

McFadden, Paul. Inflationary Cosmology: A Holographic Perspective. Perimeter Institute, Jul. 14, 2011, https://pirsa.org/11070018 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:11070018,
            doi = {10.48660/11070018},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/11070018},
            author = {McFadden, Paul},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Inflationary Cosmology: A Holographic Perspective},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2011},
            month = {jul},
            note = {PIRSA:11070018 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Paul McFadden Newcastle University

DOI 10.48660/11070018
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Abstract

We present a holographic framework for inflationary universes, in particular those that are either asymptotically de Sitter or asymptotically power-law. This framework reveals how cosmological observables, including the primordial power spectrum and non-Gaussianities, are encoded in the correlation functions of a three-dimensional non-gravitational quantum field theory. Introducing a simple yet general class of holographic models, we obtain distinctive observational predictions that are compatible with current observational data and may be either confirmed or excluded by Planck.