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de Sitter as a Resonance

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arxiv 1611.00360 v3 pith:BBXCLEC2 submitted 2016-11-01 hep-th

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A quantum mechanical formulation of de Sitter cosmological spacetimes still eludes string theory. In this paper we conjecture a potentially rigorous framework in which the status of de Sitter space is the same as that of a resonance in a scattering process. We conjecture that transition amplitudes between certain states with asymptotically supersymmetric flat vacua contain resonant poles characteristic metastable intermediate states. A calculation employing constrained instantons illustrates this idea.

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