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Mach's Holographic Principle
Justin Khoury, Maulik Parikh
Mach's principle is the concept that inertial frames are determined by matter. We propose and implement a precise formulation of Mach's principle in which matter and geometry are i…
Nonextremal black holes are BPS
Christopher M. Miller, Koenraad Schalm, Erick J. Weinberg
Extremal charged black holes are BPS solutions. It is commonly thought that their nonextremal counterparts are not. Further, experience with BPS solutions in flat spacetime suggest…
Hawking-Moss bounces and vacuum decay rates
Erick J. Weinberg
The conventional interpretation of the Hawking-Moss (HM) solution implies a transition rate between vacua that depends only on the values of the potential in the initial vacuum and…
Transitions Between de Sitter Minima
Puneet Batra, Matthew Kleban
We investigate the cosmological signatures of instantons mediating tunneling between de Sitter minima. For generic potentials the Coleman-de Luccia instanton does not necessarily e…
Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT: A holographic description of the black hole interior
Alex Hamilton, Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz +1
To gain insight into how bulk locality emerges from the holographic conformal field theory, we reformulate the bulk to boundary map in as local a way as possible. In previous work,…
Exact spectrum of scalar field perturbations in a radiation deformed closed de Sitter universe
Sash Sarangi, Koenraad Schalm, Gary Shiu +1
We observe that the equation of motion for a free scalar field in a closed universe with radiation and a positive cosmological constant is given by Lamé's equation. Computing the e…
Vacuum Sampling in the Landscape during Inflation
Hooman Davoudiasl, Sash Sarangi, Gary Shiu
We consider the phenomenological consequences of sampling multiple vacua during inflation motivated by an enormous landscape. A generic consequence of this sampling is the formatio…
Cosmology of the Tachyon in Brane Inflation
Louis Leblond, Sarah Shandera
In certain implementations of the brane inflationary paradigm, the exit from inflation occurs when the branes annihilate through tachyon condensation. We investigate various cosmol…
Giant Gravitons on Deformed pp-waves
Alex Hamilton, Jeff Murugan
The recently constructed Lunin-Maldacena deformation of is known to support two inequivalent Penrose limits that lead to BPS pp-wave geometries. In this note,…
Magnetic Monopole Dynamics, Supersymmetry, and Duality
Erick J. Weinberg, Piljin Yi
We review the properties of BPS, or supersymmetric, magnetic monopoles, with an emphasis on their low-energy dynamics and their classical and quantum bound states. After an overvie…
Is Brane Inflation Eternal?
Xingang Chen, Sash Sarangi, S. -H. Henry Tye +1
In this paper, we show that eternal inflation of the random walk type is generically absent in the brane inflationary scenario. Depending on how the brane inflationary universe ori…
Cosmic Perturbations Through the Cyclic Ages
Joel K. Erickson, Steven Gratton, Paul J. Steinhardt +1
We analyze the evolution of cosmological perturbations in the cyclic model, paying particular attention to their behavior and interplay over multiple cycles. Our key results are: (…
Holographic representation of local bulk operators
Alex Hamilton, Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz +1
The Lorentzian AdS/CFT correspondence implies a map between local operators in supergravity and non-local operators in the CFT. By explicit computation we construct CFT operators w…
Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities of General Single Field Inflation
Xingang Chen, Min-xin Huang, Shamit Kachru +1
We perform a general study of primordial scalar non-Gaussianities in single field inflationary models in Einstein gravity. We consider models where the inflaton Lagrangian is an ar…
Heating in Brane Inflation and Hidden Dark Matter
Xingang Chen, S. -H. Henry Tye
Towards the end of brane inflation, the brane pair annihilation produces massive closed strings. The transfer of this energy to Standard Model (SM) open string modes depends on whe…