Towards Microscopic Models of Big Bang Cosmology
PIRSA ID:
20090021
Series:
Quantum Fields and Strings
Event Type:
Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Quantum Fields and Strings
End date:
Speaker(s):
- Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Physics and Astronomy
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.