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Infinite Temperature's Not So Hot

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It has been argued that the entanglement spectrum of a static patch of de Sitter space must be flat, or what is equivalent, the temperature parameter in the Boltzmann distribution must be infinite. This seems absurd: quantum fields in de Sitter space have thermal behavior with a finite temperature proportional to the inverse radius of the horizon. The resolution of this puzzle is that the behavior of some quantum systems can be characterized by a temperature-like quantity which remains finite as the temperature goes to infinity. For want of a better term we have called this quantity tomperature. In this paper we will explain how tomperature resolves the puzzle in a proposed toy model of de Sitter holography -- the double-scaled limit of SYK theory.

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Holograms and Standard Models

hep-th · 2026-07-06 · conditional · novelty 7.0

DSSYK∞ at infinite temperature duals in the flat-space limit to the 't Hooft model, and holographic entropy at TB=∞ forbids quantum corrections to the vacuum energy.

An Algebra of Observables for de Sitter Space

hep-th · 2022-06-22 · accept · novelty 7.0

Defines a Type II₁ algebra of gravitationally dressed observables in de Sitter static patch whose entropy matches generalized entropy up to a state-independent additive constant.

The yes boundaries wavefunctions of the universe

hep-th · 2026-04-11 · conditional · novelty 6.5

A constrained product of two dressed one-sided dS quantum systems yields a holographic dual whose top-band TFD and lower tall states capture the future wedge and overlapping causal wedges.

An observer's quantization of 3d de Sitter

hep-th · 2026-06-24 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Proposes an SL(2,Z) sum of Kerr-lens geometries in 3d dS gravity whose spectral density is computed via crosscap amplitudes in CLS ⊗ CLS, matching semi-classical predictions and reducing in a simple case to GΣ ⊗ GΣ on the observer worldline.

3D near-de Sitter gravity and the soft mode of DSSYK

hep-th · 2026-04-22 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

The soft mode of DSSYK is dual to 3D near-de Sitter gravity with a localized dS2 slice, where effective actions, entropies, and correlators match via conformal boundary conditions on future and past infinity.

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.

Holographic complexity of de-Sitter black holes

hep-th · 2026-06-02 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

In SdS black hole holography, CV and CV2.0 complexities grow linearly while CA growth vanishes due to finite action, with matching rates between static patch and dS/CFT schemes.

Probing the Chaos to Integrability Transition in Double-Scaled SYK

hep-th · 2026-01-14 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

A first-order phase transition in the Berkooz-Brukner-Jia-Mamroud interpolating model causes chord number, Krylov complexity, and operator size to switch discontinuously from chaotic (linear/exponential) to quasi-integrable (quadratic) growth.

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