Abstract

We initiate the study of multi-field inflation using holography. Bulk light scalar fields correspond to nearly marginal operators in the boundary theory and the dual quantum field theory is a deformation of a CFT by such operators. We compute the power spectra of adiabatic and entropy perturbations in a simple model and find that the adiabatic curvature perturbation is not conserved in the presence of entropy perturbations but becomes conserved when the entropy perturbations are set to zero or the model is effectively a single scalar model, in agreement with expectations from cosmological perturbation theory.

Highlights

  • Conventional inflation could have a dual description in terms of a strongly coupled quantum field theory (QFT) while weakly coupled QFT could describe the dynamics of a non-geometric Universe

  • In a class of slow roll models one can establish the same formulae without assuming the gravity approximation but by using that the partition function of the dual QFT computes the wavefunction of the bulk theory [25]

  • In this paper we initiated the study of multi-field inflation using holography

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Summary

Preliminaries

In this section we will use the approach developed in refs. [25, 50] and extend the results of refs. [25, 47] to the case of A scalar fields.

Wave function
Correlators in the bulk
Dual quantum field theory
RG flow
Separable case
Superpotential
Potential for the solvable RG flow
Boundary QFT
Adiabatic and entropy perturbations in cosmological perturbation theory
Adiabatic and entropy perturbations from holography
Power spectra
Power spectra for the separable example
Power spectra for the adiabatic and entropy perturbations
Concluding remarks
A Analytic continuation
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