A matrix big bang

By Ben Craps, S. Sethi, Erik P. Verlinde. 2005

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The light-like linear dilaton background represents a particularly simple time-dependent 1/2 BPS solution of critical type-IIA superstring theory in ten dimensions. Its lift to M-theory, as well as its Einstein frame metric, are singular in the sense that the geometry is geodesically incomplete and the Riemann tensor diverges along a light-like subspace of codimension one. We study this background as a model for a big bang type singularity in string theory/M-theory. We construct the dual Matrix theory description in terms of a (1+1)-d supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on a time-dependent world-sheet given by the Milne orbifold of (1+1)-d Minkowski space. Our model provides a framework in which the physics of the singularity appears to be under control.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. T. Nishioka
2. T. Takayanagi
3. S. Ryu
4. R. Myers
5. V. Hubeny
6. M. Rangamani
7. E. Tonni
8. Mark Van Raamsdonk

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. T. Nishioka
2. T. Takayanagi
3. V. Hubeny
4. R. Myers
5. S. Ryu
6. M. Rangamani
7. Mark Van Raamsdonk
8. Thomas Hartman

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. T. Nishioka
2. T. Takayanagi
3. R. Myers
4. V. Hubeny
5. S. Ryu
6. Mark Van Raamsdonk
7. M. Rangamani
8. M. Nozaki

Citations in the corpus

• AdS bubbles, entropy and closed string tachyons (2006, background): “In the flat background with the null linear dilaton, only 16 supersymmetries are preserved [65].”