Cosmic Evolution from Phase Transition of Three-Dimensional Flat Space
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Bagchi, Arjun
Detournay, Stephane
Grumiller, Daniel
Simon, Joan
Date Issued
October 2013
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Bagchi, Arjun et al. “Cosmic Evolution from Phase Transition of Three-Dimensional Flat Space.” Physical Review Letters 111.18 (2013): n. pag. © 2013 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Flat space cosmology spacetimes are exact time-dependent solutions of three-dimensional gravity theories, such as Einstein gravity or topologically massive gravity. We exhibit a novel kind of phase transition between these cosmological spacetimes and the Minkowski vacuum. At sufficiently high temperature, (rotating) hot flat space tunnels into a universe described by flat space cosmology.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.181301
