Thermodynamics and Holography for de Sitter Space
PIRSA ID:
18010074
Series:
Cosmology & Gravitation
Event Type:
Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Cosmology
End date:
Speaker(s):
- Manus Visser, University of Geneva (UNIGE) - Department of Theoretical Physics
In this talk I will present new insights on a microscopic holographic theory for de Sitter space. I will focus on the static patch of dS, which describes our universe to a good approximation at late times. We use a conformal map between dS and the BTZ black hole times a sphere to relate the general microscopic properties of dS to those of symmetric product CFTs. In 2d CFT language, de Sitter space corresponds to a thermal bath of long string. The long string phenomenon exhibited by these CFTs implies that the excitation energy decreases at large distances in dS (contrary to the UV/IR relation in AdS/CFT). It also explains the smallness of the vacuum energy of dS. Similar results apply to Minkowski space and AdS below its curvature radius.