Quantum Gravity in Species Regime

Abstract

A large number of particle species allows to formulate quantum gravity in a special double-scaling limit, the species limit. In this regime, quantum gravitational amplitudes simplify substantially. An infinite set of perturbative corrections, that usually blur the picture, vanishes, whereas the collective and non-perturbative effects can be cleanly extracted. Such are the effects that control physics of black holes and of de Sitter and their entanglement curves. In string theory example, we show that the entropy of open strings matches the Gibbons-Hawking entropy of a would-be de Sitter state at the point of saturation of the species bound. This shows, from yet another angle, why quantum gravity/string theory cannot tolerate a de Sitter vacuum. Finally, we discuss various observational implications.

23 pages, 3 figures

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