Complexity/Action duality of shock wave geometry in a massive gravity theory
Abstract
On the holographic complexity dual to the bulk action, we investigate the action growth for a shock wave geometry in a massive gravity theory within the Wheeler-De Witt (WDW) patch at the late time limit. For a global shock wave, the graviton mass does not affect the action growth in the bulk, i.e. the complexity on the boundary, showing that the action growth (complexity) is the same for both the Einstein gravity and the massive gravity. Nevertheless, for a local shock wave that depends on transverse coordinates, the action growth (complexity) is proportional to the butterfly velocity for the two gravity theories, but the butterfly velocity of the massive gravity theory is smaller than that of the Einstein gravity theory, indicating that the action growth (complexity) of the massive gravity is depressed by the graviton mass. In addition, we extend the black hole thermodynamics of the massive gravity and obtain the right Smarr formula.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.01779,
title = {Complexity/Action duality of shock wave geometry in a massive gravity theory},
author = {Yan-Gang Miao and Long Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01779},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
v1: 19 pages, 2 figures; v2: clarifications added, the final version to appear in Physical Review D