Universe (Sep 2023)

Thermal Effects in Ising Cosmology

  • Nikos Irges,
  • Antonis Kalogirou,
  • Fotis Koutroulis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe9100434
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 10
p. 434

Abstract

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We consider a real scalar field in de Sitter background and compute its thermal propagators. We propose that in a dS/CFT context, nontrivial thermal effects as seen by an ‘out’ observer can be encoded in the anomalous dimensions of the d=3 Ising model. One of these anomalous dimensions, the critical exponent η, completely fixes a number of cosmological observables, which we compute.

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