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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★ 155 cited
The No-Boundary Measure of the Universe
James B. Hartle, S. W. Hawking, Thomas Hertog
We consider the no-boundary proposal for homogeneous isotropic closed universes with a cosmological constant and a scalar field with a quadratic potential. In the semi-classical li…