The holographic dual of Rényi relative entropy

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Abstract: The relative entropy is a measure of the distinguishability of two quantum states. A great deal of progress has been made in the study of the relative entropy between an excited state and the vacuum state of a conformal field theory (CFT) reduced to a spherical region. For example, when the excited state is a small perturbation of the vacuum state, the relative entropy is known to have a universal expression for extit{all} CFT's cite{Faulk-GR-entanglement}. Specifically, the perturbative relative entropy can be written as the symplectic flux of a certain scalar field in an extit{auxiliary} AdS-Rindler spacetime cite{Faulk-GR-entanglement}. Moreover, if the CFT has a semi-classical holographic dual, the relative entropy is known to be related to conserved charges in the bulk dual spacetime cite{lashkari2016gravitational}. In this paper, we introduce a one-parameter generalization of the relative entropy which we call extit{refined} R'enyi relative entropy. We study this quantity in CFT's and find a one-parameter generalization of the aforementioned known results about the relative entropy. We also discuss a new family of positive energy theorems in asymptotically locally AdS spacetimes that arises from the holographic dual of the refined R'enyi relative entropy.




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