Resolution of Cosmological Singularities in Higher Spin Gravity

Resolution of cosmological singularities is an important problem in any full theory of quantum gravity. Three dimensional de Sitter space has quotients that have big-bang/big-crunch singularities and so does the Milne orbifold which is a quotient of 2+1 flat space. Using the Chern-Simons formulation of higher spin gravity in 2+1 d de Sitter and flat space we show that higher spin theories can execute a simple resolution of the cosmological singularities when one embeds them in 2+1 dimensions.