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A new multi-partite entanglement measure and its holographic dual

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-01-12 v3

Abstract

In this letter we define a natural generalization of the von Neumann entropy to multiple parties that is symmetric with respect to all the parties. We call this measure multi-entropy. We show that for conformal field theories with holographic duals, the multi-entropy is computed by the area of an appropriate "soap-film" anchored on the boundary. We conjecture the quantum version of this prescription that takes into account the sub-leading corrections in G_N.

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@article{arxiv.2206.09723,
  title  = {A new multi-partite entanglement measure and its holographic dual},
  author = {Abhijit Gadde and Vineeth Krishna and Trakshu Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.09723},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, added comments about the junction contributions and covariant generalization, added a discussion on analytic continuation