Dual of big bang and big crunch

Journal Article · Mon Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2007 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.026003· OSTI ID:21010945

Bak, Dongsu ^[1]

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1. Physics Department, University of Seoul, Seoul 130-743 (Korea, Republic of)

Starting from the Janus solution and its gauge theory dual, we obtain the dual gauge theory description of the cosmological solution by the procedure of double analytic continuation. The coupling is driven either to zero or to infinity at the big-bang and big-crunch singularities, which are shown to be related by the S-duality symmetry. In the dual Yang-Mills theory description, these are nonsingular as the coupling goes to zero in the N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. The cosmological singularities simply signal the failure of the supergravity description of the full type IIB superstring theory.

• OSTI ID: 21010945
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.026003; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COSMOLOGY
COUPLING
DUALITY
GAUGE INVARIANCE
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
SINGULARITY
SUPERGRAVITY
SUPERSTRING MODELS
SYMMETRY
YANG-MILLS THEORY