Portrait of Gautam Satishchandran
Portrait of Gautam Satishchandran

Quantum & Gravity Seminar Gautam Satishchandran

Friday 23 February 2024, 4 pm - 5 pm

It was recently shown that the von Neumann algebras of observables dressed to the mass of a Schwarzschild-AdS black hole or an observer in de Sitter are Type II, and thus admit well-defined traces. The von Neumann entropies of "semi-classical" states were found to be generalized entropies. However, these arguments relied on the existence of an equilibrium (KMS) state and thus do not apply to, for example, black holes in asymptotically flat spacetimes or asymptotically de Sitter spacetime. In this talk, I will show that the algebra of observables in the “exterior” of any black horizon always contains a Type II factor "localized" on the horizon and the entropy of semi-classical states is the generalized entropy.

When
Friday 23 February 2024, 4 pm - 5 pm
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