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Schwarzschild de Sitter and extremal surfaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-10-28 v4

Abstract

We study extremal surfaces in the Schwarzschild de Sitter spacetime with real mass parameter. We find codim-2 timelike extremal surfaces stretching between the future and past boundaries that pass through the vicinity of the cosmological horizon in a certain limit. These are analogous to the surfaces in arXiv:1711.01107 [hep-th]. We also find spacelike surfaces that never reach the future/past boundaries but stretch indefinitely through the extended Penrose diagram, passing through the vicinity of the cosmological and Schwarzschild horizons in a certain limit. Further, these exhibit interesting structure for de Sitter space (zero mass) as well as in the extremal, or Nariai, limit.

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@article{arxiv.1910.11788,
  title  = {Schwarzschild de Sitter and extremal surfaces},
  author = {Karan Fernandes and Kedar S. Kolekar and K. Narayan and Sourav Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11788},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Latex, 25pgs incl. appendices, 4 eps figs; v2: minor clarifications, references added; v3: minor corrections; v4: 30pgs, comments section added, matches version to be published

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