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Phys. Rev. D 71, 123514 (2005) [18 pages]

Microscopic quantum mechanics of the p=ρ universe

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T. Banks*
Department of Physics and Astronomy-NHETC, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08540, USA
and Department of Physics, SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA

W. Fischler
Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

L. Mannelli
Department of Physics, SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA

Received 13 December 2004; published 9 June 2005

We present a complete quantum mechanical description of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe with equation of state p=ρ. We find a detailed correspondence with our heuristic picture of such a universe as a dense black hole fluid. Features of the geometry are derived from purely quantum input.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.123514
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.123514
PACS:
98.80.Cq

*Electronic address: banks@scipp.ucsc.edu

Electronic address: fischler@utexas.edu

Electronic address: lorenzo@scipp.ucsc.edu