Bit threads and holographic monogamy (Q2181989)

Bit threads provide an alternative description of holographic entanglement, replacing the Ryu-Takayanagi minimal surface with bulk curves connecting pairs of boundary points. The authors used bit threads and tools from the theory of convex optimization to prove the monogamy of mutual information property of holographic entanglement entropies. Based on the bit thread picture, they conjectured a general ansatz for a holographic state, involving only bipartite and perfect-tensor type entanglement, for any decomposition of the boundary into four regions. They also presented new proofs of analogous theorems on networks.