A coarse-grained generalized second law for holographic conformal field theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/5/055008zbMATH Open1338.83099arXiv1509.00074OpenAlexW3103775059WikidataQ62398100 ScholiaQ62398100MaRDI QIDQ2807428FDOQ2807428

Authors: William E. Bunting, Zicao Fu, Donald Marolf 

Publication date: 20 May 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the universal sector of a $d$-dimensional large-$N$ strongly-interacting holographic CFT on a black hole spacetime background $B$. When our CFT${}_d$ is coupled to dynamical Einstein-Hilbert gravity with Newton constant $G_d$, the combined system can be shown to satisfy a version of the thermodynamic Generalized Second Law (GSL) at leading order in $G_d$. The quantity $S_{CFT}+fracA(H_{B,extperturbed})4G_d$ is non-decreasing, where $A(H_{B,extperturbed})$ is the (time-dependent) area of the new event horizon in the coupled theory. Our $S_{CFT}$ is the notion of (coarse-grained) CFT entropy outside the black hole given by causal holographic information -- a quantity in turn defined in the AdS${}_{d+1}$ dual by the renormalized area $A_{ren}(H_{mbulk})$ of a corresponding bulk causal horizon. A corollary is that the fine-grained GSL must hold for finite processes taken as a whole, though local decreases of the fine-grained generalized entropy are not obviously forbidden. Another corollary, given by setting $G_d=0$, states that no finite process taken as a whole can increase the renormalized free energy $F=E_{out}-T{S}_{CFT}-OmegaJ-PhiQ$, with $T,Omega,Phi$ constants set by $H_B$. This latter corollary constitutes a 2nd law for appropriate non-compact AdS event horizons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00074

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zbMATH Keywords

generalized second lawholographic entropyholographic quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57)

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