Brett McInnes JHEP09(2003)009 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/009
Brett McInnes1
Show affiliationsWhen de Sitter first introduced his celebrated spacetime, he claimed, following Schwarzschild, that its spatial sections have the topology of the real projective space
P3 (that is, the topology of the group manifold SO(3)) rather than, as is almost universally assumed today, that of the sphere S3. (In modern language, Schwarzschild was disturbed by the non-local correlations enforced by S3 geometry.) Thus, what we today call ``de Sitter space" would not have been accepted as such by de Sitter. There is no real basis within classical cosmology for preferring S3 to
P3, but the general feeling appears to be that the distinction is in any case of little importance. We wish to argue that, in the light of current concerns about the nature of de Sitter space, this is a mistake. In particular, we argue that the difference between ``dS(S3)" and ``dS(
P3)" may be very important in attacking the problem of understanding horizon entropies. In the approach to de Sitter entropy via Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime, we find that the apparently trivial difference between
P3 and S3 actually leads to very different perspectives on this major question of quantum cosmology.
Discrete and Finite Symmetries
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Issue 09 (September 2003)
Received 13 August 2003, accepted for publication 3 September 2003
Published 19 September 2003
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