Krishnan, Chethan and Roy, Shubho (2013) Higher spin resolution of a toy big bang. In: Physical Review D, 88 (4). 044049_1-044049_11.
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Abstract
Diffeomorphisms preserve spacetime singularities, whereas higher spin symmetries need not. Since three-dimensional de Sitter space has quotients that have big-bang/big-crunch singularities and since dS(3)-gravity can be written as an SL(2, C) Chern-Simons theory, we investigate SL(3, C) Chern-Simons theory as a higher-spin context in which these singularities might get resolved. As in the case of higher spin black holes in AdS(3), the solutions are invariantly characterized by their holonomies. We show that the dS(3) quotient singularity can be desingularized by an SL(3, C) gauge transformation that preserves the holonomy: this is a higher spin resolution the cosmological singularity. Our work deals exclusively with the bulk theory, and is independent of the subtleties involved in defining a CFT2 dual to dS(3) in the sense of dS/CFT.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Physical Review D |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to American Physical Society. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for High Energy Physics |
Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2013 07:23 |
Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2013 07:23 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/47434 |
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