Abstract
The relationship between the entropy of de Sitter (dS) Schwarzschild space and that of the CFT, which lives on the brane, is discussed by using Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) equations and Cardy–Verlinde formula. The cosmological constant appears on the brane with time-like metric in dS Schwarzschild background. On the other hand, in case of the brane with space-like metric in dS Schwarzschild background, the cosmological constant of the brane does not appear because we can choose brane tension to cancel it. We show that when the brane crosses the horizon of dS Schwarzschild black hole, both for time-like and space-like cases, the entropy of the CFT exactly agrees with the black hole entropy of five-dimensional dS background as it happens in the AdS/CFT correspondence.