Towards a dS/MERA correspondence

Abstract

Recent advances have suggested that spacetime itself emerges from the entanglement of the quantum degrees of freedom living on the boundary. In the case of the anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes, a particular class of tensor networks has been shown to realize the same via Multi-Scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA). In this paper, we suggest a prescription for the dS/MERA correspondence and recover a discrete version of dS Penrose diagram by using the MERA on conformal theories identified with the future/past boundaries ([Formula: see text]) of the dS spacetime. In this case, as anticipated, time appears as the emergent direction. We comment on the possible interpretation that the dS cosmological horizon entropy involves entanglement with degrees of freedom across the cosmological horizon as well as the implications of our construction for cosmology.