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Bulk Connectedness and Boundary Entanglement

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-05-21 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We prove, for any state in a conformal field theory defined on a set of boundary manifolds with corresponding classical holographic bulk geometry, that for any bipartition of the boundary into two non-clopen sets, the density matrix cannot be a tensor product of the reduced density matrices on each region of the bipartition. In particular, there must be entanglement across the bipartition surface. We extend this no-go theorem to general, arbitrary partitions of the boundary manifolds into non-clopen parts, proving that the density matrix cannot be a tensor product. This result gives a necessary condition for states to potentially correspond to holographic duals.

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@article{arxiv.1703.00018,
  title  = {Bulk Connectedness and Boundary Entanglement},
  author = {Ning Bao and Grant N. Remmen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.00018},
  year   = {2018}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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