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Cosmological quantum states of de Sitter-Schwarzschild are static patch partition functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the 'cosmological interior' (the past causal diamond of future infinity) of four dimensional dS-Schwarzschild spacetimes. Within minisuperspace there is a basis of solutions labelled by a constant cc, conjugate to the mass of the black hole. We propose that these solutions are in correspondence with partition functions of a dual quantum mechanical theory where cc plays the role of time. The quantum mechanical theory lives on worldtubes in the 'static patch' of dS-Schwarzschild, and the partition function is obtained by evolving the corresponding Wheeler-DeWitt wavefunction through the cosmological horizon, where a metric component gttg_{tt} changes sign. We establish that the dual theory admits a symmetry algebra given by a central extension of the Poincar\'e algebra e(1,1)\mathfrak{e}(1,1) and that the entropy of the dS black hole is encoded as an averaging of the dual partition function over the background gttg_{tt}.

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@article{arxiv.2304.06865,
  title  = {Cosmological quantum states of de Sitter-Schwarzschild are static patch partition functions},
  author = {Matthew J. Blacker and Sean A. Hartnoll},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06865},
  year   = {2023}
}

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24 pages with references, one figure