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Thermality in de Sitter and Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

Assuming the existence of a dS/CFTdS/CFT correspondence we study the holograms of sources moving along geodesics in the bulk by calculating the one point functions they induce in the boundary theory. In analogy with a similar study of uniformly accelerated sources in AdSAdS spacetime, we argue that comoving geodesic observers correspond to a coordinate system on the boundary in which the one point function is {\it constant}. For dS3dS_3 we show that the conformal transformations on the boundary which achieve this - when continued suitably to Lorentzian signature - induce nontrivial Bogoliubov transformations between modes, leading to a thermal spectrum. This may be regarded as a holographic signature of thermality detected by bulk geodesic observers.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0202008,
  title  = {Thermality in de Sitter and Holography},
  author = {Sumit R. Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0202008},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Harvmac, 23 pages; Added comments about higher dimensions

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