Entanglement and Chaos in De Sitter Holography: An SYK Example

Abstract: Entanglement, chaos, and complexity are as important for de Sitter space as for AdS and for black holes. There are similarities and great differences between AdS and dS in how these concepts are manifested in the space-time geometry. In the first part of this paper the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription, the theory of fast scrambling, and the holographic complexity correspondence are reformulated for de Sitter space. Criteria are proposed for a holographic model to describe de Sitter space. The criteria can be summarized by the requirement that scrambling and complexity growth must be "hyperfast." In the later part of the paper I show that a certain limit of SYK is a concrete, computable, holographic model of de Sitter space. Calculations are described which support the conjecture.