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Building Bulk Geometry from the Tensor Radon Transform

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

Using the tensor Radon transform and related numerical methods, we study how bulk geometries can be explicitly reconstructed from boundary entanglement entropies in the specific case of AdS3/CFT2\mathrm{AdS}_3/\mathrm{CFT}_2. We find that, given the boundary entanglement entropies of a 22d CFT, this framework provides a quantitative measure that detects whether the bulk dual is geometric in the perturbative (near AdS) limit. In the case where a well-defined bulk geometry exists, we explicitly reconstruct the unique bulk metric tensor once a gauge choice is made. We then examine the emergent bulk geometries for static and dynamical scenarios in holography and in many-body systems. Apart from the physics results, our work demonstrates that numerical methods are feasible and effective in the study of bulk reconstruction in AdS/CFT.

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@article{arxiv.2007.00004,
  title  = {Building Bulk Geometry from the Tensor Radon Transform},
  author = {ChunJun Cao and Xiao-Liang Qi and Brian Swingle and Eugene Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.00004},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Animations for dynamical processes are found here: (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCjJ3kjqxOfw1aIa5c0X6KSpox1-AjM5b) 23 pages excluding appendices. 21 figures

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