Towards a Big Crunch Dual

Details Towards a Big Crunch Dual Towards a Big Crunch Dual

2004-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0406134v2

JHEP0407:073,2004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

27 pages, 3 figures;v2:minor corrections

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/073

We show there exist smooth asymptotically anti-de Sitter initial data which evolve to a big crunch singularity in a low energy supergravity limit of string theory. This opens up the possibility of using the dual conformal field theory to obtain a fully quantum description of the cosmological singularity. A preliminary study of this dual theory suggests that the big crunch is an endpoint of evolution even in the full string theory. We also show that any theory with scalar solitons must have negative energy solutions. The results presented here clarify our earlier work on cosmic censorship violation in N=8 supergravity.

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