Holographic de Sitter spacetime and quantum corrections to the cosmological constant

Abstract A dynamical aspect of quantum gravity on de Sitter spacetime is investigated by holography and the de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. We show that de Sitter spacetime emerges from a free Sp($N$) vector model by complexifying the ghost fields and course-graining them by flow eq...

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Veröffentlicht in:Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2020-10, Vol.2020 (10), p.1
1. Verfasser: Yokoyama, Shuichi
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract A dynamical aspect of quantum gravity on de Sitter spacetime is investigated by holography and the de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. We show that de Sitter spacetime emerges from a free Sp($N$) vector model by complexifying the ghost fields and course-graining them by flow equation in parallel to the imaginary axis. We confirm that the emergence of de Sitter spacetime is ensured by conformal symmetry. We also compute the quantum corrections to the cosmological constant up to the next-to-leading order of the $1/N$ expansion in a proposed holographic approach. As a result the sub-leading corrections have the opposite sign to the classical value. This implies that a quantum gravity on de Sitter spacetime is perturbatively stable and quantum effects make the universe flatter and the cosmological constant smaller.
ISSN:2050-3911
2050-3911
DOI:10.1093/ptep/ptaa122