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Further remarks on de Sitter space, extremal surfaces and time entanglement

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-03 v4

Abstract

We develop further the investigations in arXiv:2210.12963 [hep-th] on de Sitter space, extremal surfaces and time entanglement. We discuss the no-boundary de Sitter extremal surface areas as certain analytic continuations from AdSAdS while also amounting to space-time rotations. The structure of the extremal surfaces suggests a geometric picture of the time-entanglement or pseudo-entanglement wedge. We also study some entropy relations for multiple subregions. The analytic continuation suggests a heuristic Lewkowycz-Maldacena formulation of the extremal surface areas. In the bulk, this is now a replica formulation on the Wavefunction which suggests interpretation as pseudo-entropy. Finally we also discuss aspects of future-past entangled states and time evolution.

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@article{arxiv.2310.00320,
  title  = {Further remarks on de Sitter space, extremal surfaces and time entanglement},
  author = {K. Narayan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.00320},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Latex, 34pgs, many figs, v2,v3: entropy inequalities further expanded, clarifications added, title slightly altered, v4: one typo fixed, minor clarifications added