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Note on a centaur geometry: Probing IR de Sitter spacetime holography
Phys. Rev. D 112, 026020 – Published 16 July, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t31n-89gb
Abstract
We explore a centaur geometry in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, which is an asymptotically anti–de Sitter (AdS) spacetime but in the IR admits a de Sitter (dS) bubble, with another AdS geometry in the deep IR. Thus, this geometry admits a holographic dual in the sense that it is asymptotically AdS. In an attempt to understand this geometry, we calculate the density of states of the putative boundary dual for such mixed geometries by evaluating the on-shell action. We compute the density of states analytically in the classical limit. The resultant density of states suggests that the degrees of freedom in the IR are reduced in such a putative boundary theory due to the IR modification corresponding to the dS bubble.
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