Abstract:
We discuss the field quantisation of a free massive Dirac fermion in the two causally disconnected static
patches of the de Sitter spacetime, by using mode functions that are normalisable on the cosmological
event horizon. Using this, we compute the entanglement entropy of the vacuum state corresponding
to these two regions, for a given fermionic mode. Further extensions of this result to more general
static spherically symmetric and stationary axisymmetric spacetimes are discussed. For the stationary
axisymmetric Kerr-de Sitter spacetime in particular, the variations of the entanglement entropy with
respect to various eigenvalues and spacetime parameters are depicted numerically. We also comment
on such variations when instead we consider the non-extremal black hole event horizon of the same
spacetime.
