Through the Looking Glass: AdS-FT with time dependent boundary conditions and black hole formation

I solve for the behavior of scalars in Lorentzian AdS with time dependent boundary conditions, focusing in particular on the dilaton. This corresponds, via the AdS-CFT correspondence, to considering a gauge theory with a time dependent coupling. Changes which keep the gauge coupling nonzero result in finite but physically interesting states in the bulk, including black holes, while sending the gauge coupling to zero appears to produce a cosmological singularity in the bulk.