Holography and cosmological singularities

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Abstract

Certain null singularities in ten dimensional supergravity have natural holographic duals in terms of Matrix Theory and generalizations of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In many situations the holographic duals appear to be well defined in regions where the supergravity develops singularities. We describe some recent progress in this area.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5638-5655
Number of pages18
JournalInternational Journal of Modern Physics A
Volume22
Issue number31
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 20 2007

Bibliographical note

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I would like to thank Jeremy Michelson, K. Narayan and Sandip Trivedi for a very enjoyable collaboration, Adel Awad, Costas Bachas, Ben Craps, David Gross, A. Harindranath, David Kutasov, Gautam Mandal, Shiraz Minwalla, Tristan McLoughlin and Alfred Shapere for discussions at various stages of the research presented here. I am thankful to Amit Sever and Stephen Shenker for correspondence which clarified several issues and Arkady Tseytlin for a correspondence about conformal anomalies. I thank the British University in Egypt in Cairo for hosting a stimulating meeting. This manuscript was prepared during visits to Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata - I thank them for hospitality. The reserach reported here was supported in part by the United States National Science Foundation Grant Numbers PHY-0244811 and PHY-0555444 and Department of Energy contract No. DE-FG02-00ER45832.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

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