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de Sitter Space as a Resonance

Jonathan Maltz and Leonard Susskind
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101602 – Published 7 March 2017

Abstract

A quantum mechanical formulation of de Sitter cosmological spacetimes still eludes string theory. In this Letter we conjecture a potentially rigorous framework in which the status of de Sitter space is the same as that of a resonance in a scattering process. We conjecture that transition amplitudes between certain states with asymptotically supersymmetric flat vacua contain resonant pole characteristic metastable intermediate states. A calculation employing constrained instantons illustrates this idea.

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  • Received 24 November 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.101602

© 2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Particles & FieldsGravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Jonathan Maltz1,2 and Leonard Susskind2

  • 1Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 2Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA

See Also

de Sitter harmonies: Cosmological spacetimes as resonances

Jonathan Maltz
Phys. Rev. D 95, 066006 (2017)

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Vol. 118, Iss. 10 — 10 March 2017

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