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Deconstructing de Sitter

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-05-28 v2

Abstract

Semiclassical gravity predicts that de Sitter space has a finite entropy. We suggest a picture for Euclidean de Sitter space in string theory, and use the AdS/CFT correspondence to argue that de Sitter entropy can be understood as the number of degrees of freedom in a quantum mechanical dual.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0103171,
  title  = {Deconstructing de Sitter},
  author = {Vijay Balasubramanian and Petr Horava and Djordje Minic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0103171},
  year   = {2010}
}

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17 pages, LaTe, v2.: references and acknowledgements added