The arithmetic geometry of AdS₂ and its continuum limit

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Abstract: According to the 't Hooft-Susskind holography, the black hole entropy,SmathrmBH, is carried by the chaotic microscopic degrees of freedom, which live in the near horizon region and have a Hilbert space of states of finite dimension d=exp(SmathrmBH). In previous work we have proposed that the near horizon geometry, when the microscopic degrees of freedom can be resolved, can be described by the AdS2[mathbbZN] discrete, finite and random geometry, where NproptoSmathrmBH. It has been constructed by purely arithmetic and group theoretical methods in order to explain, in a direct way, the finiteness of the entropy, SmathrmBH. What has been left as an open problem is how the smooth AdS2 geometry can be recovered, in the limit when Noinfty. In the present article we solve this problem, by showing that the discrete and finite AdS2[mathbbZN] geometry can be embedded in a family of finite geometries, AdS2M[mathbbZN], where M is another integer. This family can be constructed by an appropriate toroidal compactification and discretization of the ambient (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski space-time. In this construction N and M can be understood as "infrared" and "ultraviolet" cutoffs respectively. The above construction enables us to obtain the continuum limit of the AdS2M[mathbbZN] discrete and finite geometry, by taking both N and M to infinity in a specific correlated way, following a reverse process: Firstly, by recovering the continuous, toroidally compactified, AdS2[mathbbZN] geometry by removing the ultraviolet cutoff; secondly, by removing the infrared cutoff in a specific decompactification limit, while keeping the radius of AdS2 finite. It is in this way that we recover the standard non-compact AdS2 continuum space-time. This method can be applied directly to higher-dimensional AdS spacetimes.




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