The dS/CFT correspondence (original) (raw)
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Abstract
A holographic duality is proposed relating quantum gravity on dSD (D-dimensional de Sitter space) to conformal field theory on a single SD-1 ((D-1)-sphere), in which bulk de Sitter correlators with points on the boundary are related to CFT correlators on the sphere, and points on Script I+ (the future boundary of dSD) are mapped to the antipodal points on SD-1 relative to those on Script I-. For the case of dS3, which is analyzed in some detail, the central charge of the CFT2 is computed in an analysis of the asymptotic symmetry group at Script I+/-. This dS/CFT proposal is supported by the computation of correlation functions of a massive scalar field. In general the dual CFT may be non-unitary and (if for example there are sufficently massive stable scalars) contain complex conformal weights. We also consider the physical region Script O- of dS3 corresponding to the causal past of a timelike observer, whose holographic dual lives on a plane rather than a sphere. Script O- can be foliated by asymptotically flat spacelike slices. Time evolution along these slices is generated by L0+bar L0, and is dual to scale transformations in the boundary CFT2.
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Journal of High Energy Physics
Pub Date:
October 2001
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
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