Segmented strings and holography

Publication date 20 April 2023

Abstract: In this paper we establish a connection between segmented strings propagating in an

A d S_{d + 1}

background and the holographic entanglement entropies of

C F T_{d}

subsystems in Minkowski spacetime

{m a t h b b R}^{d - 1, 1}

, calculated for the vacuum state. We show that the area of the world sheet of a string segment measured in appropriate units on the

A d S

side can be connected to certain combinations of entanglement entropies on the

C F T

side if

d

is even. For the special case of

A d S_{3}

we prove that this combination is precisely the one showing up in proofs of strong subadditivity for the covariant holographic entanglement entropy proposal. More precisely: the segmented stringy area in units of

4 G L

(

G

is Newton's constant and

L

is the

A d S

length) is just the conditional mutual information

I (A, C v e r t B)

calculated for a trapezoid configuration arising from boosted spacelike intervals

A

,

B

and

C

. The causal diamonds of such a configuration encode information for a unique reconstruction of the string world sheet in a holographic manner. We prove that the four special points of the causal diamonds involved in this reconstruction (corresponding to the future and past tips of two intersecting diamonds) have a peculiar property. They are representing a causally ordered set of consecutive events in boosted inertial frames or in noninertial ones proceeding with constant acceleration, i.e. exhibiting hyperbolic motion. The acceleration of such frames is related to the normal vector of the world sheet of the corresponding string segment. It is also shown that the variation of the discretized Nambu-Goto action leads to an equation for entanglement entropies in the boundary theory of the form of a Toda equation.

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