Towards a derivation of holographic entanglement entropy

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DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2011)036zbMATH Open1296.81073arXiv1102.0440MaRDI QIDQ457480FDOQ457480

Marina Huerta, Horacio Casini, Robert C. Myers

Publication date: 26 September 2014

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

Abstract: We provide a derivation of holographic entanglement entropy for spherical entangling surfaces. Our construction relies on conformally mapping the boundary CFT to a hyperbolic geometry and observing that the vacuum state is mapped to a thermal state in the latter geometry. Hence the conformal transformation maps the entanglement entropy to the thermodynamic entropy of this thermal state. The AdS/CFT dictionary allows us to calculate this thermodynamic entropy as the horizon entropy of a certain topological black hole. In even dimensions, we also demonstrate that the universal contribution to the entanglement entropy is given by A-type trace anomaly for any CFT, without reference to holography.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0440




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