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Constructing Space From Entanglement Entropy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-21 v2

Abstract

We explicitly reconstruct the metric of a gravity dual to field theories using known entanglement entropies using the Ryu-Takayanagi formula. We use for examples CFT's in d=1d = 1, 2 and 3 as well as CFT on a circle of length LL and a thermal CFT at temperature β1\beta^{-1}. We also give the first several coefficients in the Taylor series of the metric for a general entanglement entropy in 1+1 dimensions as well as some examples (Appendix B). The beginnings of a dictionary between the dual theories appears naturally and does not need to be inserted by hand. For example, the dictionary entries c=3R/2GNc=3R/2G_N for 1+1 dimensional CFT and N2=πR3/2GNN^2 = \pi R^3/2G_N for N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM in 3+1 dimensions are forced upon us. After uploading this paper I was made aware of (arXiv:1012.1812) which solves the same problem in a similar way.

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@article{arxiv.1311.4516,
  title  = {Constructing Space From Entanglement Entropy},
  author = {Michael Spillane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4516},
  year   = {2013}
}

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18 pages, 2 figures

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