Cosmic Evolution from Phase Transition of Three-Dimensional Flat Space

Flat space cosmology spacetimes are exact time-dependent solutions of three-dimensional gravity theories, such as Einstein gravity or topologically massive gravity. We exhibit a novel kind of phase transition between these cosmological spacetimes and the Minkowski vacuum. At sufficiently high temper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bagchi, Arjun, Detournay, Stephane, Grumiller, Daniel, Simon, Joan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84956

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