Cosmological observatories

Dionysios Anninos; Damián A. Galante; Chawakorn Maneerat

doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ad5824

Cosmological observatories

Dionysios Anninos, Damián A. Galante, Chawakorn Maneerat^*

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We study the static patch of de Sitter space in the presence of a timelike boundary. We impose that the conformal class of the induced metric and the trace of the extrinsic curvature, K, are fixed at the boundary. We present the thermodynamic structure of de Sitter space subject to these boundary conditions, for static and spherically symmetric configurations to leading order in the semiclassical approximation. In three spacetime dimensions, and taking K constant on a toroidal Euclidean boundary, we find that the spacetime is thermally stable for all K. In four spacetime dimensions, the thermal stability depends on the value of K. It is established that for sufficiently large K, the de Sitter static patch subject to conformal boundary conditions is thermally stable. This contrasts the Dirichlet problem for which the region encompassing the cosmological horizon has negative specific heat. We present an analysis of the linearised Einstein equations subject to conformal boundary conditions. In the worldline limit of the timelike boundary, the underlying modes are linked to the quasinormal modes of the static patch. In the limit where the timelike boundary approaches the cosmological event horizon, the linearised modes are interpreted in terms of the shear and sound modes of a fluid dynamical system. Additionally, we find modes with a frequency of positive imaginary part. Measured in a local inertial reference frame, and taking the stretched cosmological horizon limit, these modes grow at most polynomially.

Original language	English
Article number	165009
Journal	Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume	41
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad5824
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2024

Keywords

de Sitter
holography
timelike boundaries

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