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Unity from Duality: Gravity, Gauge Theory and Strings

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These lectures present an elementary discussion of some background material relevant to the problem of de Sitter quantum gravity. The first two lectures discuss the classical geometry of de Sitter space and properties of quantum field theory on de Sitter space, especially the temperature and entropy of de Sitter space. The final lecture contains a pedagogical discussion of the appearance of the conformal group as an asymptotic symmetry group, which is central to the dS/CFT correspondence. A (previously lacking) derivation of asymptotically de Sitter boundary conditions is also given.

We would like to thank C. Bachas, A. Bilal, F. David, M. Douglas, and N. Nekrasov for organizing a very pleasant and productive summer school and for arranging financial support. This work was supported in part by DOE grant DE-FG02-91ER40655. M.S. is also supported by DOE grant DE-FG02-91ER40671, and A.V. is also supported by INTAS-OPEN-97-1312. We are grateful to R. Bousso and A. Maloney for useful discussions, and to C. Herzog and L. McAllister for comments on the manuscript.

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Spradlin, M., Strominger, A., Volovich, A. (2002). De Sitter Space. In: Bachas, C., Bilal, A., Douglas, M., Nekrasov, N., David, F. (eds) Unity from Duality: Gravity, Gauge Theory and Strings. Les Houches - Ecole d’Ete de Physique Theorique, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36245-2_6

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