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Codimension two holography for wedges

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-21 v4 Statistical Mechanics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose a codimension two holography between a gravitational theory on a d+1d+1 dimensional wedge spacetime and a d1d-1 dimensional CFT which lives on the corner of the wedge. Formulating this as a generalization of AdS/CFT, we explain how to compute the free energy, entanglement entropy and correlation functions of the dual CFTs from gravity. In this wedge holography, the holographic entanglement entropy is computed by a double minimization procedure. Especially, for a four dimensional gravity (d=3d=3), we obtain a two dimensional CFT and the holographic entanglement entropy perfectly reproduces the known result expected from the holographic conformal anomaly. We also discuss a lower dimensional example (d=2d=2) and find that a universal quantity naturally arises from gravity, which is analogous to the boundary entropy. Moreover, we consider a gravity on a wedge region in Lorentzian AdS, which is expected to be dual to a CFT with a space-like boundary. We formulate this new holography and compute the holographic entanglement entropy via a Wick rotation of the AdS/BCFT construction. Via a conformal map, this wedge spacetime is mapped into a geometry where a bubble-of-nothing expands under time evolution. We reproduce the holographic entanglement entropy for this gravity dual via CFT calculations.

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@article{arxiv.2007.06800,
  title  = {Codimension two holography for wedges},
  author = {Ibrahim Akal and Yuya Kusuki and Tadashi Takayanagi and Zixia Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.06800},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

57 pages, 17 figures; v2: typos corrected, references added; v3: improved explanations, minor corrections; v4: comments added in section 2.1

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