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Deconstructing de Sitter

arXiv:hep-th/0103171 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/043

Abstract

Semiclassical gravity predicts that de Sitter space has a finite entropy. We suggest a picture for Euclidean de Sitter space in string theory, and use the AdS/CFT correspondence to argue that de Sitter entropy can be understood as the number of degrees of freedom in a quantum mechanical dual.

17 pages, LaTe, v2.: references and acknowledgements added