![]() |
|
SEMINARS |
Seminar of the LHEP (MIPT) theory group
|
|||
|
De Sitter entropy: on-shell versus off-shell D. V. D'yakonovab a Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region b Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Moscow |
|||
Abstract: For space-time with a Killing horizon, it is assumed that the generalized entropy satisfies the area law. I will show that instead of interpreting generalized de Sitter entropy as an area law, it can be interpreted as a bulk contribution to the entropy. The bulk entropy, computed on-shell, i.e., by attributing thermodynamic properties to the vacuum, we compute the entropy as a volume integral, rather than as a contribution from the horizon, varying only the Gibbons-Hawking temperature. The area law is computed off-shell. Namely, we fix the Gibbons-Hawking temperature and do not fix the period of Euclidean time then we have a manifold with conical singularities on the horizon surface. Since all curvature tensors contain delta-like singularities on the horizon surface, we can expand the Euclidean effective action close to the Gibbons-Hawking temperature and compute the entropy. As a result both approach gives the same result. Hence, in de Sitter space, there are two ways of thinking about entropy: as a bulk or as a boundary (horizon) contribution. |