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Gravity Dual of Connes Cocycle Flow

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-09-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We define the "kink transform" as a one-sided boost of bulk initial data about the Ryu-Takayanagi surface of a boundary cut. For a flat cut, we conjecture that the resulting Wheeler-DeWitt patch is the bulk dual to the boundary state obtained by Connes cocycle (CC) flow across the cut. The bulk patch is glued to a precursor slice related to the original boundary slice by a one-sided boost. This evades ultraviolet divergences and distinguishes our construction from one-sided modular flow. We verify that the kink transform is consistent with known properties of operator expectation values and subregion entropies under CC flow. CC flow generates a stress tensor shock at the cut, controlled by a shape derivative of the entropy; the kink transform reproduces this shock holographically by creating a bulk Weyl tensor shock. We also go beyond known properties of CC flow by deriving novel shock components from the kink transform.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.00230,
  title  = {Gravity Dual of Connes Cocycle Flow},
  author = {Raphael Bousso and Venkatesa Chandrasekaran and Pratik Rath and Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.00230},
  year   = {2020}
}

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43 pages, 7 figures

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