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Unbounded entropy in spacetimes with positive cosmological constant

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-12 v2

Abstract

In theories of gravity with a positive cosmological constant, we consider product solutions with flux, of the form (A)dS_p x S^q. Most solutions are shown to be perturbatively unstable, including all uncharged dS_p x S^q spacetimes. For dimensions greater than four, the stable class includes universes whose entropy exceeds that of de Sitter space, in violation of the conjectured "N-bound". Hence, if quantum gravity theories with finite-dimensional Hilbert space exist, the specification of a positive cosmological constant will not suffice to characterize the class of spacetimes they describe.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205080,
  title  = {Unbounded entropy in spacetimes with positive cosmological constant},
  author = {Raphael Bousso and Oliver DeWolfe and Robert C. Myers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205080},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

25 pages; v2: references added