Coarse Graining Holographic Black Holes in Higher Curvature Gravity
Abstract
We consider the holographic description of the dynamical black hole entropy in higher curvature gravity which proposed by Hollands-Wald-Zhang. On the bulk side, we show that the coarse-grained entropy (outer entropy) of a generalized marginally trapped surface corresponds precisely to the Wald entropy associated with this surface. To get this result, we first formulate the AdS/CFT correspondence in the Einstein frame and derive the correspondence between the von Neumann entropy in the Einstein frame and the frame. This facilitates the derivation of the correspondence between the two outer entropies in the two frames. Furthermore, we directly derive a focusing theorem associated with generalized expansion in gravity. We then formulate how to construct the stationary null hypersurface for the generalized expansion and the junction condition to glue a hypersurface in gravity. Combining these results, we directly derive the expression for the outer entropy in the frame and identify its holographic dual.
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@article{arxiv.2602.19721,
title = {Coarse Graining Holographic Black Holes in Higher Curvature Gravity},
author = {Qiongyu Qi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19721},
year = {2026}
}