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Gravitational effective theories associated with holographic CFTs have cosmological solutions, which are typically big-bang/big-crunch cosmologies. These solutions are not asymptotically AdS, so they are not dual to finite-energy states of the CFT. However, we can find solutions with arbitrarily large spherical bubbles of such cosmologies embedded in asymptotically AdS spacetimes where the exterior of the bubble is Schwarzschild-AdS. In this paper, we explore such solutions and their possible CFT dual descriptions. Starting with a cosmological solution with Λ < 0 plus arbitrary matter density, radiation density, and spatial curvature, we show that a comoving bubble of arbitrary size can be embedded in a geometry with AdS-Schwarzschild exterior across a thin-shell domain wall comprised of pressureless matter. We show that in most cases (in particular, for arbitrarily large bubbles with an arbitrarily small negative spatial curvature) the entropy of the black hole exceeds the (radiation) entropy in the cosmological bubble, suggesting that a faithful CFT description is possible. We show that unlike the case of a de Sitter bubble, the Euclidean continuation of these cosmological solutions is sensible and suggests a specific construction of CFT states dual to the cosmological solutions via Euclidean path integral.
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We would like to thank Stefano Antonini, Brian Swingle, and Chris Waddell for helpful discussions. We acknowledge support from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Simons foundation via a Simons Investigator Award and the “It From Qubit” collaboration grant.
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Sahu, A., Simidzija, P. & Van Raamsdonk, M. Bubbles of cosmology in AdS/CFT. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 10 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2023)010
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