Conformal Complementarity Maps

TL;DR

This paper explores quantum cosmological models with bang/crunch singularities using AdS/CFT duality, revealing a conformal complementarity map that relates different cosmological evolutions through dual CFT descriptions.

Contribution

It introduces a quantum conformal complementarity map in AdS/CFT, connecting bang/crunch singularities with dual de Sitter CFTs and providing a detailed toy model analysis.

Findings

Horizon complementarity corresponds to a conformal transformation in the dual CFT.

The complementarity map acts as an exact duality in a conformal quantum mechanics toy model.

The commutation relation between Hamiltonians vanishes on scale-invariant states.

Abstract

We study quantum cosmological models for certain classes of bang/crunch singularities, using the duality between expanding bubbles in AdS with a FRW interior cosmology and perturbed CFTs on de Sitter space-time. It is pointed out that horizon complementarity in the AdS bulk geometries is realized as a conformal transformation in the dual deformed CFT. The quantum version of this map is described in full detail in a toy model involving conformal quantum mechanics. In this system the complementarity map acts as an exact duality between eternal and apocalyptic Hamiltonian evolutions. We calculate the commutation relation between the Hamiltonians corresponding to the different frames. It vanishes only on scale invariant states.