Holography of information in de Sitter space

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DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2023)120arXiv2303.16316OpenAlexW4390145226MaRDI QIDQ6201099FDOQ6201099


Authors: Tuneer Chakraborty, Joydeep Chakravarty, Victor Godet, Priyadarshi Paul, Suvrat Raju Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 20 February 2024

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the natural norm on the space of solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in an asymptotically de Sitter spacetime. We propose that the norm is obtained by integrating the squared wavefunctional over field configurations and dividing by the volume of the diff-and-Weyl group. We impose appropriate gauge conditions to fix the diff-and-Weyl redundancy and obtain a finite expression for the norm using the Faddeev-Popov procedure. This leads to a ghost action that has zero modes corresponding to a residual conformal subgroup of the diff-and-Weyl group. By keeping track of these zero modes, we show that Higuchi's norm for group-averaged states emerges from our prescription in the nongravitational limit. We apply our formalism to cosmological correlators and propose that they should be understood as gauge-fixed observables. We identify the symmetries of these observables. In a nongravitational theory, it is necessary to specify such correlators everywhere on a Cauchy slice to identify a state in the Hilbert space. In a theory of quantum gravity, we demonstrate a version of the principle of holography of information: cosmological correlators in an arbitrarily small region suffice to completely specify the state.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16316







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