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SUMMARY:Cosmological singularities\, quantum chaos and prime numbers
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sean Hartnoll\n\n\nAt a singularity the continuum de
 scription of spacetime breaks down and one can hope that the microscopic c
 onstituents will be revealed. Over 50 years ago\, Belinski-Khalatnikov-Lif
 shitz (BKL) argued that the dynamics of spacetime close to the Big Bang s
 ingularity (or inside black holes) is chaotic and inhomogeneous. I will r
 evisit the BKL scenario within a modern understanding of quantum chaos and
  holographic duality. I will argue that the remarkable modular symmetries 
 that arise in the near-singularity dynamics suggests a dual description of
  the start of time as a so-called “primon gas”\, a description that is
  at once both simple and also connects with deep results from number theor
 y.\n\n\nhttps://conference.ippp.dur.ac.uk/event/1537/
URL:https://conference.ippp.dur.ac.uk/event/1537/
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