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A large class of Λ < 0 cosmologies have big-bang/big crunch spacetimes with time-symmetric backgrounds and asymptotically AdS Euclidean continuations suggesting a possible holographic realization. We argue that these models generically have time-dependent scalar fields, and these can lead to realistic cosmologies at the level of the homogeneous background geometry, with an accelerating phase prior to the turnaround and crunch. We first demonstrate via explicit effective field theory examples that models with an asymptotically AdS Euclidean continuation can also exhibit a period of accelerated expansion without fine tuning. We then show that certain significantly more tuned examples can give predictions arbitrarily close to a ΛCDM model. Finally, we demonstrate via an explicit construction that the potentials of interest can arise from a superpotential, thus suggesting that these solutions may be compatible with an underlying supersymmetric theory.
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We acknowledge support from the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0009986 (B.G.S.), the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Accelerated Research for Quantum Computing program “FAR-QC” (S.A.), the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Simons foundation via a Simons Investigator Award and the “It From Qubit” collaboration grant.
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Antonini, S., Simidzija, P., Swingle, B. et al. Accelerating cosmology from Λ < 0 gravitational effective field theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 203 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2023)203
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