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There is more to the de Sitter horizon than just the area

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-09-16 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

It is well known that the area of the de Sitter cosmological horizon is related to the entropy of the bulk spacetime. Recent work has however shown that the horizon encodes more information about the bulk spacetime than just the entropy. In this work, we show that the horizon contains all of the gauge invariant (diffeomorphism and U(1)U(1)) information about (static albeit unstable) configurations of charged and rotating objects placed deep inside the de Sitter spacetime. We study highly symmetric objects, such as dipoles and cubes, built of objects with electric charge and angular momentum at their vertices. We show how these configurations affect the geometry of the cosmological horizon and imprint detailed information about the objects in the bulk onto the cosmological horizon.

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@article{arxiv.2412.12097,
  title  = {There is more to the de Sitter horizon than just the area},
  author = {Willy Fischler and Hare Krishna and Sarah Racz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.12097},
  year   = {2025}
}

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28 pages, 6 figures