Les Houches lectures on de Sitter space

By Marcus Spradlin, Andrew Strominger, Anastasia Volovich. 2001

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These lectures present an elementary discussion of some background material relevant to the problem of de Sitter quantum gravity. The first two lectures discuss the classical geometry of de Sitter space and properties of quantum field theory on de Sitter space, especially the temperature and entropy of de Sitter space. The final lecture contains a pedagogical discussion of the appearance of the conformal group as an asymptotic symmetry group, which is central to the dS/CFT correspondence. A (previously lacking) derivation of asymptotically de Sitter boundary conditions is also given.

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

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Bootstrapping inflationary correlators in Mellin space (2019, unknown): “[49–55].”
Multi-Trace Operators, Boundary Conditions, And AdS/CFT Correspondence (2001, background): “As in analogous examples of large N bosonic theories discussed in [20], the theory is not asymptotically free for f > 0, though asymptotic freedom would arise formally for f < 0.”
String theory and hybrid inflation / acceleration (2001, background): “There are well known problems in incorporating de Sitter space and cosmology into the framework of M/String theory; see the most recent discussions in [28, 29, 30].”
Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect (2003, background): “This leads to the temperature of deSitter spacetime[25, 26].”
Inflation, holography, and the choice of vacuum in de Sitter space (2002, background): “An incomplete list of references is given by [32-55].”
A Mellin space approach to cosmological correlators (2019, unknown): “[43–47].”
The Landscape, the Swampland and the Era of Precision Cosmology (2018, background): “[27–34] The mindset of the string theory community about supersymmetry and de Sitter space can be traced back to the lectures on dS/CFT correspondence by Strominger et al.[137].”
New coordinates for de Sitter space and de Sitter radiation (2002, background): “Many different coordinate systems are known for de Sitter space (see, e.g., [1, 2 ]).”
DE SITTER MUSINGS (2012, background): “These vacua and their properties are reviewed in [75, 76].”
Holographic Renormalization (2001, background): “Looking for supporting evidence to a possible dS/CFT correspondence, many authors investigated the asymptotic symmetries of asymptotically de Sitter spacetime and the associated conserved charges [66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 18].”
The Swampland: Introduction and Review (2019, methodology): “In this section we will review some properties of de Sitter space, following [443,444].”
Relaxion monodromy and the Weak Gravity Conjecture (2015, methodology): “The bubble solution is obtained in the so-called hyperbolic coordinates [80].”
Lecture notes on holographic renormalization (2002, unknown): “and the associated conserved charges [67, 68, 69, 70, 71 , 18].”
On the classification of asymptotic quasinormal frequencies for $d$-dimensional black holes and quantum gravity (2004, background): “The emitted particles are, however, observer dependent, as is the “cosmological sphere” of dS (we refer the reader to the recent review [46], for more details and a list of current open problems).”
Classical central extension for asymptotic symmetries at null infinity in three spacetime dimensions (2006, result): “The analysis of the asymptotic charge algebra has subsequently been performed in the context of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes at timelike infinity [4] with results very similar to those obtained in the anti-de Sitter case.”