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Title: q-deformed de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 (United States)

Unitary principal series representations of the conformal group appear in the de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence. These are infinite-dimensional irreducible representations, without highest weights. In earlier work of Gueijosa and the author it was shown for the case of two-dimensional de Sitter space, there was a natural q-deformation of the conformal group, with q a root of unity, where the unitary principal series representations become finite-dimensional cyclic unitary representations. Formulating a version of the dS/CFT correspondence using these representations can lead to a description with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and unitary evolution. In the present work, we generalize to the case of quantum-deformed three-dimensional de Sitter spacetime and compute the entanglement entropy of a quantum field across the cosmological horizon.

OSTI ID:
20698003
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 70, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.104002; (c) 2004 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English