Holography and Cosmological Singularities
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Certain null singularities in ten dimensional supergravity have natural holographic duals in terms of Matrix Theory and generalizations of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In many situations the holographic duals appear to be well defined in regions where the supergravity develops singularities. We describe some recent progress in this area. Based on talks given at CTP Symposium, Cairo, Egypt (March, 2007) and Sowers Theoretical Physics Workshop, Blacksurg, Virginia, USA. (May, 2007)
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تاریخ انتشار 2008