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Theory Seminar: Higher Spin de Sitter Holography

Date:
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Location:
CP179
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Dionysis Anninos

We explore the proposal that de Sitter theories containing an infinite tower of interacting gauge fields of increasing spin are connected holographically to certain critical statistical field theories with negative central charge. We discuss both perturbative and non-perturbative features. Finally, we discuss how the naive degrees of freedom of the bulk description might be severely reduced to a non-extensive (in spatial volume) amount, as might be expected in a quantum theory of de Sitter space.