Three-Dimensional Cosmology and Higher Spin Gravity
I will describe the embedding of homogenous and isotropic cosmological solutions with de Sitter asymptotics in three dimensional higher spin gravity. These are ordinary FRW solutions but they have special gauge transformations associated with the higher spin symmetry. In some cases these gauge transformations resolve the initial singularity of the gravity solution. Time permitting, I will also discuss the relation with dS/CFT along the lines of 1111.0276.