Cosmological Singularities and a Conjectured Gravity/coset Correspondence
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We review the recently discovered connection between the Belinsky-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz-like “chaotic” structure of generic cosmological singularities in eleven-dimensional supergravity and the “last” hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebra E10. This intriguing connection suggests the existence of a hidden “correspondence” between supergravity (or even M-theory) and null geodesic motion on the infinite-dimensional coset space E10/K(E10). If true, this gravity/coset correspondence would offer a new view of the (quantum) fate of space (and matter) at cosmological singularities.
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