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Holographic Entanglement Entropy in Cyclic Cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-09-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss a cyclic cosmology in which the visible universe, or introverse, is all that is accessible to an observer while the extroverse represents the total spacetime originating from the time when the dark energy began to dominate. It is argued that entanglement entropy of the introverse is the more appropriate quantity to render infinitely cyclic, rather than the entropy of the total universe. Since vanishing entanglement entropy implies disconnected spacetimes, at the turnaround when the introverse entropy is zero the disconnected extroverse can be jettisoned with impunity.

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@article{arxiv.1707.01092,
  title  = {Holographic Entanglement Entropy in Cyclic Cosmology},
  author = {Paul H. Frampton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01092},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages LaTeX. Rewritten to increase transparency

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