On extremal surfaces and de Sitter entropy

We study extremal surfaces in the static patch coordinatization of de Sitter space, focusing on the future and past universes. We find connected timelike codim-2 surfaces on a boundary Euclidean time slice stretching from the future boundary I+ to the past boundary I−. In a limit, these surfaces pas...

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Published in:Physics letters. B 2018-04, Vol.779, p.214-222
Main Author: Narayan, K.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:We study extremal surfaces in the static patch coordinatization of de Sitter space, focusing on the future and past universes. We find connected timelike codim-2 surfaces on a boundary Euclidean time slice stretching from the future boundary I+ to the past boundary I−. In a limit, these surfaces pass through the bifurcation region and have minimal area with a divergent piece alone, whose coefficient is de Sitter entropy in 4-dimensions. These are reminiscent of rotated versions of certain surfaces in the AdS black hole. We close with some speculations on a possible dS/CFT interpretation of 4-dim de Sitter space as dual to two copies of ghost-CFTs in an entangled state. For a simple toy model of two copies of ghost-spin chains, we argue that similar entangled states always have positive norm and positive entanglement.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.010