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Entanglement in De Sitter Space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-09-07 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

This paper expands on two recent proposals, \cite{Susskind:2021dfc}\cite{Susskind:2021esx} and \cite{Shaghoulian:2021cef}, for generalizing the Ryu-Takayanagi and Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi formulas to de Sitter space. The proposals (called the monolayer and bilayer proposals) are similar; both replace the boundary of AdS by the boundaries of static-patches--in other words event horizons. After stating the rules for each, we apply them to a number of cases and show that they yield results expected on other grounds. The monolayer and bilayer proposals often give the same results, but in one particular situation they disagree. To definitively decide between them we need to understand more about the nature of the thermodynamic limit of holographic systems.

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@article{arxiv.2201.03603,
  title  = {Entanglement in De Sitter Space},
  author = {Edgar Shaghoulian and Leonard Susskind},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.03603},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

26 pages, many figures

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