A bound on holographic entanglement entropy from inverse mean curvature flow

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA6AD0zbMATH Open1367.83014arXiv1612.04373OpenAlexW2578588550MaRDI QIDQ5283540FDOQ5283540

Toby Wiseman, Sebastian Fischetti

Publication date: 24 July 2017

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

Abstract: Entanglement entropies are notoriously difficult to compute. Large-N strongly-coupled holographic CFTs are an important exception, where the AdS/CFT dictionary gives the entanglement entropy of a CFT region in terms of the area of an extremal bulk surface anchored to the AdS boundary. Using this prescription, we show -- for quite general states of (2+1)-dimensional such CFTs -- that the renormalized entanglement entropy of any region of the CFT is bounded from above by a weighted local energy density. The key ingredient in this construction is the inverse mean curvature (IMC) flow, which we suitably generalize to flows of surfaces anchored to the AdS boundary. Our bound can then be thought of as a "subregion" Penrose inequality in asymptotically locally AdS spacetimes, similar to the Penrose inequalities obtained from IMC flows in asymptotically flat spacetimes. Combining the result with positivity of relative entropy, we argue that our bound is valid perturbatively in 1/N, and conjecture that a restricted version of it holds in any CFT.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04373

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zbMATH Keywords

entropy boundsinverse mean curvature flowAdS/CFTPenrose inequalitiesholographic entanglement entropy

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)

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