PIRSA:20090021 Scientific Series Quantum Fields and Strings

DOI10.48660/20090021

Series: Quantum Fields and Strings

Van Raamsdonk, M. (2020). Towards Microscopic Models of Big Bang Cosmology. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/20090021

Van Raamsdonk, Mark. Towards Microscopic Models of Big Bang Cosmology. Perimeter Institute, Sep. 29, 2020, https://pirsa.org/20090021 

@misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:20090021,
  doi = {10.48660/20090021},
  url = {https://pirsa.org/20090021},
  author = {Van Raamsdonk, Mark},
  keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
  language = {en},
  title = {Towards Microscopic Models of Big Bang Cosmology},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2020},
  month = {sep},
  note = {PIRSA:20090021 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
}

Abstract

In this talk, we review an approach to describing cosmological physics using ordinary AdS/CFT, where the cosmological physics is the effective description of an end-of-the-world brane which cuts off the second asymptotic region of a two-sided black hole. The worldvolume geometry of the brane is an FRW big-bang/big-crunch spacetime. Infavorable circumstances, the brane acts as a Randall-Sundrum Planck brane so that gravity localizes. We describe a microscopic construction for such an end-of-the-world brane with localized gravity in AdS/CFT, starting from N=4 SYM theory. We suggest specific microscopic states of N=4 SYM theory that may encode the physics in a four-dimensional cosmological spacetime.

 

Resources

Next talk

Related Talks