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            <mods:title>Holographic description of black holes and 
cosmic inflation in asymptotically anti de Sitter 
backgrounds</mods:title>
          </mods:titleInfo>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Roy, Shubho Ranjan</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">creator</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:originInfo>
            <mods:copyrightDate>2010</mods:copyrightDate>
          </mods:originInfo>
          <mods:physicalDescription>
            <mods:extent>xv, 84 p.</mods:extent>
            <mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin>
          </mods:physicalDescription>
          <mods:note>Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2010)</mods:note>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Lowe, David</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">Director</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Lowe, David</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">Reader</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Jevicki, Antal</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">Reader</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Spradlin, Marcus</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">Reader</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="corporate">
            <mods:namePart>Brown University. Physics</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">sponsor</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:genre authority="aat">theses</mods:genre>
          <mods:abstract>    Nonperturbative issues in quantum gravity in 
Anti de Sitter spacetimes are addressed by means of the manifestly 
holographic framework of Anti de Sitter/Conformal Field theory 
correspondence (in Lorentzian signature). After a review of the 
properties of Anti de Sitter space, the map of local bulk insertions in 
terms of "smeared out" boundary CFT operators is constructed in the 
strictly semiclassical limit. We begin with pure AdS space in various 
coordinate systems where it is demonstrated how (approximate) bulk 
locality emerges from the dual CFT. The best result is obtained for the 
case of Rindler coordinates one is able to minimize the support of the 
complexif ied smeared CFT operators to a very compact region of the 
boundary.    Holographic maps are also constructed for various AdS black 
holes. We show how bulk degrees of freedom in
regions of bulk behind horizons are encoded in the dual CFT and what is 
the CFT interpretation of the black hole singularity.
    Next we model a scenario of eternal ination by embedding "landscape" 
of string theory vacua in the manifestly holographic framework of 
AdS/CFT duality. Bubble geometries with de Sitter
interiors within an ambient Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black hole 
spacetime are investigated and a characterization for the states in the 
dual CFT on boundary of the asymptotic AdS which code the expanding dS 
bubble are obtained. These can then in turn be used to specify initial 
conditions for cosmology. This scenario naturally interprets the entropy 
of de Sitter space as a (logarithm of ) subspace of states of the black 
hole microstates. Consistency checks are performed and a number of 
implications regarding cosmology are discussed including how the key 
problems or paradoxes of conventional eternal ination are overcome.
    Finally we turn to pure AdS gravity in (2+1)-dimensions which is 
classically equivalent to Chern-Simons theory. Recent investigations 
suggest that the dual CFT is holomorphically factorizable.  By analyzing 
classical gauge </mods:abstract>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>AdS/CFT</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>Black Holes</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>Inflation</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>Chern-Simons Theory</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject authority="FAST" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/833708"><mods:topic>Black holes (Astronomy)</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="FAST" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/972479"><mods:topic>Inflationary universe</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:recordInfo>
            <mods:recordContentSource authority="marcorg">RPB</mods:recordContentSource>
            <mods:recordCreationDate encoding="iso8601">20110926</mods:recordCreationDate>
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        <mods:language><mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</mods:languageTerm><mods:languageTerm type="text">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:identifier type="doi">10.7301/Z03B5XCF</mods:identifier><mods:accessCondition type="rights statement" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">Collection is open for research.</mods:accessCondition><mods:typeOfResource authority="primo">dissertations</mods:typeOfResource></mods:mods>