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Higher spin de Sitter holography from functional determinants

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Dionysios Anninos *
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Frederik Denef
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George Konstantinidis
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Edgar Shaghoulian
DOI:10.1007/JHEP02(2014)007delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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We discuss further aspects of the higher spin dS/CFT correspondence. Using a recent result of Dunne and Kirsten, it is shown how to numerically compute the partition function of the free Sp(N) model for a large class of SO(3) preserving deformations of the flat/round metric on ae(3) /S (3) and the source of the spin-zero single-trace operator dual to the bulk scalar. We interpret this partition function as a Hartle-Hawking wavefunctional. It has a local maximum about the pure de Sitter vacuum. Restricting to SO(3) preserving deformations, other local maxima (which exceed the one near the de Sitter vacuum) can peak at inhomogeneous and anisotropic values of the late time metric and scalar profile. Numerical experiments suggest the remarkable observation that, upon fixing a certain average of the bulk scalar profile at , the wavefunction becomes normalizable in all the other (infinite) directions of the deformation. We elucidate the meaning of double trace deformations in the context of dS/CFT as a change of basis and as a convolution. Finally, we discuss possible extensions of higher spin de Sitter holography by coupling the free theory to a Chern-Simons term.
Keywords:
Gauge-gravity correspondence
Models of Quantum Gravity
Nonperturbative Effects

Journal

Journal of High Energy Physics cover
Journal of High Energy Physics
IF:
5.5
Papers:
3.9W
Citations:
13.7W

Organization

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Stanford University
Scholars:
9.6W
Papers: 8.2W
Citations: 17.0W
K
KU Leuven
Scholars:
5.7W
Papers: 5.2W
Citations: 8.1W