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De Sitter and Schwarzschild-de Sitter according to Schwarzschild and de Sitter

Brett McInnes1

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When de Sitter first introduced his celebrated spacetime, he claimed, following Schwarzschild, that its spatial sections have the topology of the real projective space Bbb RP3 (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 Bbb RP3, 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(Bbb RP3)" 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 Bbb RP3 and S3 actually leads to very different perspectives on this major question of quantum cosmology.


Keywords

Discrete and Finite Symmetries

AdS-CFT and dS-CFT Correspondence

Black Holes in String Theory

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0308022

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PACS

98.80.Es Observational cosmology (including Hubble constant, distance scale, cosmological constant, early Universe, etc)

98.80.Qc Quantum cosmology

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 09 (September 2003)

Received 13 August 2003, accepted for publication 3 September 2003

Published 19 September 2003



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