The geometry of the entropic principle and the shape of the universe

Abstract

Ooguri, Vafa, and Verlinde have outlined an approach to two-dimensional accelerating string cosmology which is based on topological string theory, the ultimate objective being to develop a string-theoretic understanding of "creating the Universe from nothing". The key technical idea here is to assign two different Lorentzian spacetimes to a certain Euclidean space. Here we give a simple framework which allows this to be done in a systematic way. This framework can be extended to higher dimensions. We find then that the general shape of the spatial sections of the newly created Universe is constrained by the OVV formalism: the sections have to be flat and compact. © SISSA 2006.