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Boundary Conditions and Entanglement in Anti-de Sitter Space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-08-04 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the entanglement entropy of a conformally coupled scalar field at its ground state in (3+1)(3+1)-dimensional AdS space in global coordinates. We consider spherical entangling surfaces centered at the origin of AdS and allow for general boundary conditions at the conformal boundary. Through numerical and analytical means, we show that the UV-divergent part of the entropy has a universal form, while the UV-finite part is sensitive to the boundary conditions. We determine the dependence of the latter part on mixed boundary conditions that interpolate between Dirichlet and Neumann.

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@article{arxiv.2608.04229,
  title  = {Boundary Conditions and Entanglement in Anti-de Sitter Space},
  author = {Konstantinos Boutivas and Dimitrios Katsinis and Georgios Pastras and Nathan Smeyers and Nikolaos Tetradis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04229},
  year   = {2026}
}

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26 pages, 8 figures