Theory HEP Seminar

The Wave Function of the Universe in Higher Spin Gravity

Daniel Harlow

Princeton University

I discuss field theory calculations of the deformed partition function of the three dimensional non-unitary Sp(N) model recently proposed to be dual to higher spin gravity in four-dimensional de Sitter space. These can be interpreted as boundary calculations of the Hartle-Hawking wave function, and I discuss their implications for cosmology in higher-spin de Sitter space.