Further holographic investigations of big bang singularities

@article{Engelhardt2015FurtherHI,
  title={Further holographic investigations of big bang singularities},
  author={Netta Engelhardt and Thomas Hertog and Gary T. Horowitz},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2015},
  volume={2015},
  pages={1-20}
}
A bstractWe further explore the quantum dynamics near past cosmological singularities in anisotropic Kasner-AdS solutions using gauge/gravity duality. The dual description of the bulk evolution involves N=4$$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ super Yang-Mills on the contracting branch of an anisotropic de Sitter space and is well defined. We compute two-point correlators of Yang-Mills operators of large dimensions using spacelike geodesics anchored on the boundary. The correlator between two points separated in… 
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