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Static Patch Solipsism: Conformal Symmetry of the de Sitter Worldline

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We show that the propagators of gravitons and scalar fields seen by a static patch observer in de Sitter spacetime are controlled by hidden SL(2,R) symmetries, at all frequencies. The retarded Green's function is determined by an SL(2,R) x SL(2,R) action generated by conformal Killing vectors of de Sitter spacetime times a line. This observation uses the fact that the static patch of dS_{d+1} x R is conformal to the hyperbolic patch of AdS_3 x S^{d-1}. The poles of the propagators, the quasinormal frequencies, are generated by associated SL(2,R) actions. The quasinormal mode generating algebras capture the conformal weights more usually read off from the fields at future and past infinity. For conformally coupled scalar fields, and for gravitons in four dimensions, this SL(2,R) algebra has an enhanced supersymmetric structure and is generated by particular conformal Killing vectors of de Sitter spacetime. We show how the worldline de Sitter propagators can be reproduced from a `level matched' left and right moving conformal quantum mechanics with an appropriate spectrum of primary operators. Our observations are consistent with the notion that the static patch of de Sitter spacetime is dually described by a (level matched) large N worldline conformal quantum mechanics.

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hep-th · 2026-04-02 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

Holographic banners are four-argument on-shell actions that map thermofield double boundary states to future interior semiclassical states and yield BKL mixing timescales in AdS black holes.

Gravitons on Nariai Edges

hep-th · 2025-06-02 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

The one-loop graviton path integral on S² × S^{d-1} factorizes into a bulk thermal graviton gas partition function in Nariai geometry and an edge contribution from shift-symmetric fields on S^{d-1}.

Towards a microscopic description of de Sitter dynamics

hep-th · 2025-06-02 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

An SYK-based quantum system reproduces semiclassical correlators of quantum fields in rigid de Sitter space and non-trivial OTOC features including a doubled Lyapunov exponent.

Undulating Conformal Boundaries in 3D Gravity

hep-th · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Inhomogeneous torus boundaries in 3D gravity are thermodynamically favourable for AdS in the range 2 < K |Λ|^{-1/2} < 3/√2 and support macroscopic entropy for all Λ.

De Sitter Horizon Edge Partition Functions

hep-th · 2025-01-29 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Edge partition functions for totally symmetric tensors in dS_{d+1} are decomposed under so(d), with the linearized gravity case receiving contributions from shift-symmetric fields on S^{d-1} suggesting an embedded brane interpretation.

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  • Holographic Banners hep-th · 2026-04-02 · unverdicted · none · ref 57

    Holographic banners are four-argument on-shell actions that map thermofield double boundary states to future interior semiclassical states and yield BKL mixing timescales in AdS black holes.

  • Horizon Edge Partition Functions in $\Lambda>0$ Quantum Gravity hep-th · 2026-03-21 · unverdicted · none · ref 119 · internal anchor

    Horizon edge mode spectra in de Sitter and Nariai spacetimes exhibit universal shift symmetries that produce novel symmetry breaking in one-loop partition functions.

  • Cosmological Entanglement Entropy from the von Neumann Algebra of Double-Scaled SYK & Its Connection with Krylov Complexity hep-th · 2025-11-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 269 · internal anchor

    Algebraic entanglement entropy from type II1 algebras in double-scaled SYK is matched via triple-scaling limits to Ryu-Takayanagi areas in (A)dS2, reproducing Bekenstein-Hawking and Gibbons-Hawking formulas for specific regions while depending on Krylov complexity of the Hartle-Hawking state.

  • Gravitons on Nariai Edges hep-th · 2025-06-02 · unverdicted · none · ref 72 · internal anchor

    The one-loop graviton path integral on S² × S^{d-1} factorizes into a bulk thermal graviton gas partition function in Nariai geometry and an edge contribution from shift-symmetric fields on S^{d-1}.

  • Towards a microscopic description of de Sitter dynamics hep-th · 2025-06-02 · unverdicted · none · ref 6 · internal anchor

    An SYK-based quantum system reproduces semiclassical correlators of quantum fields in rigid de Sitter space and non-trivial OTOC features including a doubled Lyapunov exponent.

  • Undulating Conformal Boundaries in 3D Gravity hep-th · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 27

    Inhomogeneous torus boundaries in 3D gravity are thermodynamically favourable for AdS in the range 2 < K |Λ|^{-1/2} < 3/√2 and support macroscopic entropy for all Λ.

  • On bulk reconstruction in Lorentzian AdS and its flat space limit hep-th · 2026-05-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 32 · internal anchor

    Constructs bulk scalar field representations in Lorentzian AdS4 from boundary primaries via time-ordered propagators and derives their flat-space limits to plane-wave or Carrollian bases.

  • De Sitter Horizon Edge Partition Functions hep-th · 2025-01-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 124 · internal anchor

    Edge partition functions for totally symmetric tensors in dS_{d+1} are decomposed under so(d), with the linearized gravity case receiving contributions from shift-symmetric fields on S^{d-1} suggesting an embedded brane interpretation.