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arXiv 2403.02119gr-qchep-th
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de Sitter视界熵来自单纯形洛伦兹路径积分

De Sitter horizon entropy from a simplicial Lorentzian path integral

Bianca Dittrich, Ted Jacobson, José Padua-Argüelles

AI总结:

该研究通过2+1维单纯形路径积分模型,利用欧几里得鞍点轮廓变形计算de Sitter静态斑块的熵,强调正负lapse积分及复度量限制,并发现主导贡献来自环绕圆盘边界的可收缩闭合类时曲线。

摘要:

量子引力系统的希尔伯特空间维度可以形式化地写成洛伦兹度量上的路径积分配分函数。我们在一个2+1维单纯形迷你超空间模型中实现了这一点,其中系统是一个空间拓扑圆盘,并通过轮廓变形经过欧几里得鞍点,恢复了de Sitter静态斑块的熵,直至离散化伪影。该模型说明了在正负lapse上积分以强制执行引力约束的重要性,以及限制在波动积分会收敛的复度量上的重要性。尽管严格洛伦兹路径积分是振荡的,但指数级大的配分函数源于作用量中不可避免的虚数贡献。这些贡献来自对配置中余维数为2的单纯形(Regge)作用量的解析延拓,在这些配置中度量不再是洛伦兹的。特别是,主导贡献来自具有可收缩闭合类时曲线环绕圆盘边界的配置,这与最近的连续结果密切相关。

英文摘要:

The dimension of the Hilbert space of a quantum gravitational system can be written formally as a path integral partition function over Lorentzian metrics. We implement this in a 2+1 dimensional simplicial minisuperspace model in which the system is a spatial topological disc, and recover by contour deformation through a Euclidean saddle the entropy of the de Sitter static patch, up to discretization artifacts. The model illustrates the importance of integration over both positive and negative lapse to enforce the gravitational constraints, and of restriction to complex metrics for which the fluctuation integrals would converge. Although a strictly Lorentzian path integral is oscillatory, an exponentially large partition function results from unavoidable imaginary contributions to the action. These arise from analytic continuation of the simplicial (Regge) action for configurations with codimension-2 simplices where the metric fails to be Lorentzian. In particular, the dominant contribution comes from configurations with contractible closed timelike curves that encircle the boundary of the disc, in close correspondence with recent continuum results.

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