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Bottom-up de Sitter Holography

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Explore a theoretical physics seminar examining the fundamental quantum mechanical description of de Sitter space through a holographic lens. Learn how AdS/CFT holography principles can be applied to understand static patches in de Sitter spacetime, with particular focus on computing correlation functions of operators dressed to an observer's worldline. Discover the intriguing "anti-scrambling" property exhibited by out-of-time-ordered correlators with long time separations and understand how this phenomenon creates tension with finite temperature quantum mechanics. Examine the probability distribution for observer mass in the Hartle-Hawking state and its implications as a fundamental constraint on potential quantum duals. Gain insights into cutting-edge research in theoretical physics that bridges cosmology, quantum mechanics, and holographic duality principles through this bottom-up approach to de Sitter holography.

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Bottom-up de Sitter Holography - David Kolchmeyer

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