"Holography and de Sitter space"

Lecture Index

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Title Slide 00:00:00
WMAP and type I supernovae 00:01:10
1) Classic Facts 00:06:11
Flat (Inflationary) 00:06:51
Problems 00:07:59
2) Fundamental Problems 00:12:58
3) Observables 00:15:10
Q: Do observables stay in the hot tin can? 00:18:06
Q: Meaning of entropy 00:19:28
Our work 00:21:37
Aside: AdS vs. dS 00:24:55
QFT in de Sitter 00:28:08
"Alpha vacuum" 00:30:46
Euclidean vacuum 00:32:38
Formal expressions!! 00:33:28
Normalize 00:37:30
e^n ... Relaxes to 1 00:38:35
Many faults of alpha-vacua 00:39:46
Euclidean wave functional 00:45:44
Similarly ... More precisely 00:48:06