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Holography, Diffeomorphisms, and Scaling Violations in the CMB

Finn Larsen, Robert McNees

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0402050

Abstract

We analyze diffeomorphism invariance in inflationary spacetimes regulated by a boundary at late time. We present the action for quadratic fluctuations in the presence of a boundary, and verify that it is gauge invariant precisely when the correct local counterterms are included. The scaling behavior of bulk correlation functions at the boundary is determined by Callan-Symanzik equations which predict scaling violations in agreement with the standard inflationary predictions for spectral indices of the CMB.

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