Unbounded entropy in spacetimes with positive cosmological constant

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Bousso, R [1 ]
DeWolfe, O
Myers, RC
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[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Inst Theoret Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[2] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, Waterloo, ON NSJ 2W9, Canada
[3] Univ Waterloo, Dept Phys, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
[4] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
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10.1023/A:1023733106589
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O4 [物理学];
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In theories of gravity with a positive cosmological constant, we consider product solutions with flux, of the form (A) dS(p) x S-q. Most solutions are shown to be perturbatively unstable, including all uncharged dS(p) x S-q spacetimes. For dimensions greater than four, the stable class includes universes whose entropy exceeds that of de Sitter space, in violation of the conjectured "N-bound." Hence, if quantum gravity theories with finite-dimensional Hilbert space exist, the specification of a positive cosmological constant will not suffice to characterize the class of spacetimes they describe.
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