Entropic N-bound and Maximal Mass Conjecture Violations in Four Dimensional Taub-Bolt(NUT)-dS Spacetimes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We show that the class of four-dimensional Taub-Bolt(NUT) spacetimes with positive cosmological constant for some values of NUT charges are stable and have entropies that are greater than that of de Sitter spacetime, in violation of the entropic N-bound conjecture. We also show that the maximal mass conjecture, which states "any asymptotically dS spacetime with mass greater than dS has a cosmological singularity", can be violated as well. Our calculation of conserved mass and entropy is based on an extension of the path integral formulation to asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0307059,
title = {Entropic N-bound and Maximal Mass Conjecture Violations in Four Dimensional Taub-Bolt(NUT)-dS Spacetimes},
author = {R. Clarkson and A. M. Ghezelbash and R. B. Mann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0307059},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
37 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables, few typos corrected, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B