Holographic complexity is nonlocal

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Publication:1748765

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2018)072zbMATH Open1387.81314arXiv1801.01137MaRDI QIDQ1748765FDOQ1748765


Authors: Zicao Fu, Alexander Maloney, Donald Marolf, Henry Maxfield, Zhencheng Wang Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the "complexity equals volume" (CV) and "complexity equals action" (CA) conjectures by examining moments of of time symmetry for mAdS3 wormholes having n asymptotic regions and arbitrary (orientable) internal topology. For either prescription, the complexity relative to n copies of the M=0 BTZ black hole takes the form DeltaC=alphacchi, where c is the central charge and chi is the Euler character of the bulk time-symmetric surface. The coefficients alphaV=4pi/3, alphaA=1/6 defined by CV and CA are independent of both temperature and any moduli controlling the geometry inside the black hole. Comparing with the known structure of dual CFT states in the hot wormhole limit, the temperature and moduli independence of alphaV, alphaA implies that any CFT gate set defining either complexity cannot be local. In particular, the complexity of an efficient quantum circuit building local thermofield-double-like entanglement of thermal-sized patches does not depend on the separation of the patches so entangled. We also comment on implications of the (positive) sign found for alphaA, which requires the associated complexity to decrease when handles are added to our wormhole.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01137




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