52 citations · 92 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
hep-th2007★ 52 cited
From Big Crunch to Big Bang with AdS/CFT
Neil Turok, Ben Craps, Thomas Hertog
The AdS/CFT correspondence is used to describe five-dimensional cosmology with a big crunch singularity in terms of super-Yang-Mills theory on R times S^3 deformed by a potential w…
hep-th2007★ 8 cited
Horizons and Tunneling in the Euclidean False Vacuum
Kate Marvel, Neil Turok
In the thin-wall approximation, the decay of a gravitating false vacuum to a lower-energy state is affected by the cosmological horizon structure in both spaces. The nucleation rad…
hep-th2007★ 32 cited
Bouncing Negative-Tension Branes
Jean-Luc Lehners, Neil Turok
Braneworlds, understood here as double domain wall spacetimes, can be described in terms of a linear harmonic function, with kinks at the locations of the boundary branes. In a dyn…