Pith. sign in

REVIEW 15 cited by

de Sitter space, extremal surfaces and "time-entanglement"

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2210.12963 v4 pith:VMPBW3HQ submitted 2022-10-24 hep-th

classification hep-th
keywords surfacesboundaryleadssittertimelikecomplex-valuedentirelyextremal
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
abstract

We refine previous investigations on de Sitter space and extremal surfaces anchored at the future boundary $I^+$. Since such surfaces do not return, they require extra data or boundary conditions in the past (interior). In entirely Lorentzian de Sitter spacetime, this leads to future-past timelike surfaces stretching between $I^\pm$. Apart from an overall $-i$ factor (relative to spacelike surfaces in $AdS$) their areas are real and positive. With a no-boundary type boundary condition, the top half of these timelike surfaces joins with a spacelike part on the hemisphere giving a complex-valued area. Motivated by these, we describe two aspects of "time-entanglement" in simple toy models in quantum mechanics. One is based on a future-past thermofield double type state entangling timelike separated states, which leads to entirely positive structures. Another is based on the time evolution operator and reduced transition amplitudes, which leads to complex-valued entropy.

Discussion (0). Sign in to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 15 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. Selecting Complex Extremal Surfaces with the Kontsevich--Segal--Witten Criterion

    hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    In AdS3, dS3, and AdS4 hyperbolic examples, the Kontsevich-Segal-Witten criterion uniquely selects a three-piece complex contour for timelike extremal surfaces, while timelike strips in AdS4 violate the criterion near...

  2. Temporal Entanglement from Twist Correlators in 2d Conformal Field Theory and Holography

    hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Timelike entanglement entropy in 2d CFT is defined by time-ordered twist correlators, whose holographic saddles are complex geodesics with smallest real length, and whose imaginary part counts causal-diamond crossings...

  3. Imaginary pseudo entropy encodes temporal orientation

    quant-ph 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0 of 10

    The calibrated pseudo-Rényi phase and replica visibility exactly equal the Helstrom trace distance between forward and backward ancilla states, giving a bounded operational meaning to imaginary pseudo entropy.

  4. Linear Growth of Holographic Time-like Entanglement Entropy and Kasner exponents

    hep-th 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 6.5 of 10

    Late-time TEE growth in asymptotically AdS black holes with space-like singularities is governed by a critical extremal surface inside the horizon, with real/imaginary growth rates bounded by Schwarzschild-AdS under e...

  5. Holographic timelike complexity for de Sitter

    hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Timelike subregion volume complexity in de Sitter grows exponentially early and diverges hyperfast at a maximal duration; near the SdS black hole horizon the divergence is replaced by slower, claimed-nonlinear growth.

  6. Timelike Entanglement First Law and Linearized Field Equations in Higher Curvature Gravity

    hep-th 2026-07 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

    Timelike entanglement first law holds in Lovelock gravity about AdS, with both entropy and modular Hamiltonian variations carrying the same coupling factor that renormalizes Newton's constant in the linearized equations.

  7. Universality of pseudoentropy for deformed spheres in dS/CFT

    hep-th 2025-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    The quadratic shape-deformation correction to pseudoentropy in dS/CFT is controlled by the analytically continued stress-tensor coefficient C_T, making the sphere a local extremum across Einstein and quadratic-curvatu...

  8. Entanglement first law for timelike entanglement entropy and linearized Einstein's equation

    hep-th 2025-11 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    For timelike boundary regions, the entanglement first law ΔS = Δ⟨H⟩ is equivalent, by the paper's proof, to the linearized Einstein equations around AdS.

  9. Timelike Holographic Complexity

    hep-th 2025-10 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Timelike subregion complexity within the holographic Complexity=Volume conjecture is computed for pure AdS and AdS black branes; it is purely real and shares the spacelike UV divergence structure.

  10. De Sitter Complexity Grows Linearly in the Static Patch

    hep-th 2025-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Timelike extremal volume in the de Sitter static patch gives a holographic complexity that grows linearly with time and is proportional to horizon entropy times temperature.

  11. Temporal Entanglement from Holographic Entanglement Entropy

    hep-th 2025-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Holographic timelike entanglement entropy is defined by analytically continuing all candidate extremal surfaces through the light cone and selecting the one with smallest real part of the area.

  12. Evaporating universes

    hep-th 2025-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A toy model using four-dimensional Brill-Lindquist wormholes reproduces the Page curve for black hole evaporation and shows Hawking-radiation decoding complexity falls to polynomial at late times.

  13. Renormalized pseudoentropy in dS/CFT

    hep-th 2026-02 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    Renormalized holographic pseudoentropy in dS/CFT is constructed from conformal-gravity actions in four and six dimensions, yielding finite sphere values and Mezei-like shape dependence for small deformations.

  14. Timelike entanglement and central charge for quantum BTZ black holes

    hep-th 2025-07 reject novelty 5.0 of 10

    The paper numerically computes timelike entanglement entropy for quantum BTZ black holes and claims that the effective central charge drops sharply as quantum backreaction crosses a critical value.

  15. Emergent Holographic Spacetime from Quantum Information

    hep-th 2025-06 unverdicted novelty 3.0 of 10

    Takayanagi's essay outlines a research program in which holographic spacetime, including the time direction, may emerge from entanglement, complexity, and complex-valued pseudo-entropy, without presenting a new derivation.

Pith tools