CFT driven cosmology and DGP/CFT Correspondence

by A. O. Barvinsky (Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow)

Thursday 4 Dec 2008, 08:00 → 09:00 Europe/Zurich

EPFL, Salle 727 du BSP, EPFL

We consider the model of initial conditions and dynamical evolution of the early Universe cosmology driven by a conformal field theory. This model incorporates a mechanism restricting the cosmological constant range (potentially useful for constraining the landscape of string vacua), contains the dark energy mechanism in the form of the so-called big boost scenario and is likely to suggest a new type of field-theoretic duality -- the DGP/CFT correspondence.