Recurrent Nightmares?: Measurement Theory in de Sitter Space
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
The idea that asymptotic de Sitter space can be described by a finite Hilbert Space implies that any quantum measurement has an irreducible innacuracy. We argue that this prevents any measurement from verifying the existence of the Poincare recurrences that occur in the mathematical formulation of quantum de Sitter (dS) space. It also implies that the mathematical quantum theory of dS space is not unique. There will be many different Hamiltonians, which give the same results, within the uncertainty in all possible measurements.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210160,
title = {Recurrent Nightmares?: Measurement Theory in de Sitter Space},
author = {T. Banks and W. Fischler and S. Paban},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210160},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
19 pages, no figures, unfortunate omission in references corrected