Some Thoughts on the Quantum Theory of Stable de Sitter Space
Abstract
I review and update ideas about the quantum theory of de Sitter space. New results include a quantum relation between energy and entropy of states in the causal patch, which is satisfied by small dS black holes. I also discuss the preliminaries of a quantum theory in global coordinates, which is invariant under a q-deformed version of the de Sitter supergroup. In this context I outline an algebraic derivation of the CSB scaling relation between Poincare SUSY breaking and the dS radius. I also review recent work on infra-red divergences in dS/CFT, as well as the phenomenology of CSB. I show that a coincidence been two scales in the phenomenological model is explained by insisting on the existence of galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0503066,
title = {Some Thoughts on the Quantum Theory of Stable de Sitter Space},
author = {T. Banks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0503066},
year = {2007}
}
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JHEP3 Latex, 40 pages, 1 eps figure