Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-07-29
Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 046002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
10 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.046002
We compute the canonical partition function of 2+1 dimensional de Sitter space using the Euclidean $SU(2)\times SU(2)$ Chern-Simons formulation of 3d gravity with a positive cosmological constant. Firstly, we point out that one can work with a Chern-Simons theory with level $k=l/4G$, and its representations are therefore unitary for integer values of $k$. We then compute explicitly the partition function using the standard character formulae for SU(2) WZW theory and find agreement, in the large $k$ limit, with the semiclassical result. Finally, we note that the de Sitter entropy can also be obtained as the degeneracy of states of representations of a Virasoro algebra with $c=3l/2G$.
Banados Maximo
Brotz Thorsten
Ortiz Miguel
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