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The Gravity Dual of Renyi Entropy
A remarkable yet mysterious property of black holes is that their entropy is
proportional to the horizon area. This area law inspired the holographic
principle, which was later realized concretely in gauge/gravity duality. In
this context, entanglement entropy is given by the area of a minimal surface in
a dual spacetime. However, discussions of area laws have been constrained to
entanglement entropy, whereas a full understanding of a quantum state requires
Renyi entropies. Here we show that all Renyi entropies satisfy a similar area
law in holographic theories and are given by the areas of dual cosmic branes.
This geometric prescription is a one-parameter generalization of the minimal
surface prescription for entanglement entropy. Applying this we provide the
first holographic calculation of mutual Renyi information between two disks of
arbitrary dimension. Our results provide a framework for efficiently studying
Renyi entropies and understanding entanglement structures in strongly coupled
systems and quantum gravity.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure; v2: typos fixed, references and minor
clarifications added; v3: references added, title and format changed to match
version to be published in Nature Communication
Holographic Entanglement Entropy for General Higher Derivative Gravity
We propose a general formula for calculating the entanglement entropy in
theories dual to higher derivative gravity where the Lagrangian is a
contraction of Riemann tensors. Our formula consists of Wald's formula for the
black hole entropy, as well as corrections involving the extrinsic curvature.
We derive these corrections by noting that they arise from naively higher order
contributions to the action which are enhanced due to would-be logarithmic
divergences. Our formula reproduces the Jacobson-Myers entropy in the context
of Lovelock gravity, and agrees with existing results for general
four-derivative gravity.
We emphasize that the formula should be evaluated on a particular bulk
surface whose location can in principle be determined by solving the equations
of motion with conical boundary conditions. This may be difficult in practice,
and an alternative method is desirable. A natural prescription is simply
minimizing our formula, analogous to the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription for
Einstein gravity. We show that this is correct in several examples including
Lovelock and general four-derivative gravity.Comment: 1+35 pages, 2 figures; v2: typos fixed, references added, and other
improvements; v3: corrected a previous omission in counting, other
clarifications; v4: minor clarifications, references added, published versio
Holographic Entropy Cone with Time Dependence in Two Dimensions
In holographic duality, if a boundary state has a geometric description that
realizes the Ryu-Takayanagi proposal then its entanglement entropies must obey
certain inequalities that together define the so-called holographic entropy
cone. A large family of such inequalities have been proven under the assumption
that the bulk geometry is static, using a method involving contraction maps. By
using kinematic space techniques, we show that in two boundary (three bulk)
dimensions, all entropy inequalities that can be proven in the static case by
contraction maps must also hold in holographic states with time dependence.Comment: 37 pages, 10 figure
Constraints on RG Flows from Holographic Entanglement Entropy
We examine the RG flow of a candidate c-function, extracted from the
holographic entanglement entropy of a strip-shaped region, for theories with
broken Lorentz invariance. We clarify the conditions on the geometry that lead
to a break-down of monotonic RG flows as is expected for generic
Lorentz-violating field theories. Nevertheless we identify a set of simple
criteria on the UV behavior of the geometry which guarantee a monotonic
c-function. Our analysis can thus be used as a guiding principle for the
construction of monotonic RG trajectories, and can also prove useful for
excluding possible IR behaviors of the theory.Comment: 5 pages, no figure
Entropy, Extremality, Euclidean Variations, and the Equations of Motion
We study the Euclidean gravitational path integral computing the Renyi
entropy and analyze its behavior under small variations. We argue that, in
Einstein gravity, the extremality condition can be understood from the
variational principle at the level of the action, without having to solve
explicitly the equations of motion. This set-up is then generalized to
arbitrary theories of gravity, where we show that the respective entanglement
entropy functional needs to be extremized. We also extend this result to all
orders in Newton's constant , providing a derivation of quantum
extremality. Understanding quantum extremality for mixtures of states provides
a generalization of the dual of the boundary modular Hamiltonian which is given
by the bulk modular Hamiltonian plus the area operator, evaluated on the
so-called modular extremal surface. This gives a bulk prescription for
computing the relative entropies to all orders in . We also comment on how
these ideas can be used to derive an integrated version of the equations of
motion, linearized around arbitrary states.Comment: 37 pages; v2: typos fixed and new references added; v3: new
references and minor clarifications adde
Generalized Gravitational Entropy from Total Derivative Action
We investigate the generalized gravitational entropy from total derivative
terms in the gravitational action. Following the method of Lewkowycz and
Maldacena, we find that the generalized gravitational entropy from total
derivatives vanishes. We compare our results with the work of Astaneh,
Patrushev, and Solodukhin. We find that if total derivatives produced nonzero
entropy, the holographic and the field-theoretic universal terms of
entanglement entropy would not match. Furthermore, the second law of
thermodynamics could be violated if the entropy of total derivatives did not
vanish.Comment: 24 pages; v2: added references, Sec. 5.2 for corner entanglement, a
toy model in Sec. 5.3, and minor corrections; v3: added one reference,
published versio
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