On the horizon entropy of a causal set

Abstract

We discuss how to define a kinematical horizon entropy on a causal set. We extend a recent definition of horizon molecules to a setting with a null hypersurface crossing the horizon. We argue that, as opposed to the spacelike case, this extension fails to yield an entropy local to the hypersurface-horizon intersection in the continuum limit when the causal set approximates a curved spacetime. We then investigate the entropy defined via the Spacetime Mutual Information between two regions of a causal diamond truncated by a causal horizon, and find it does limit to the area of the intersection.

26 pages, 9 figures. Updated to v2 to match the accepted manuscript