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Seeing double: shock waves and the de Sitter horizon
Willy Fischler, Hare Krishna, Sarah Racz
We consider a de Sitter observer in his rest frame at late times who observes a particle slightly displaced from unstable equilibrium. Initially, the observer notices an axisymmetr…
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There is more to the de Sitter horizon than just the area
Willy Fischler, Hare Krishna, Sarah Racz
It is well known that the area of the de Sitter cosmological horizon is related to the entropy of the bulk spacetime. Recent work has however shown that the horizon encodes more in…