Towards a precise theory of cosmology
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this thesis I discuss progress towards a precise mathematical description of cosmology and in particular of eternal inflation. I present a conjecture for a necessary condition for a spacetime to have a precise dual description, discuss how the dictionary of dS/CFT is more sophisticated than that of AdS/CFT, present a soluble model of eternal inflation that has a conformal boundary theory at future infinity, and discuss the implications of this model for a conjectured precise dual theory based on observers in bubbles with zero cosmological constant. The work described was done in collaboration with Leonard Susskind, Douglas Stanford, and Stephen Shenker.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Harlow, Daniel Lord |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
| Primary advisor | Susskind, Leonard |
| Thesis advisor | Susskind, Leonard |
| Thesis advisor | Dimopoulos, Savas, 1952- |
| Thesis advisor | Shenker, Stephen Hart, 1953- |
| Advisor | Dimopoulos, Savas, 1952- |
| Advisor | Shenker, Stephen Hart, 1953- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Daniel Lord Harlow. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Daniel Lord Harlow
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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