Gravity Edges Modes and Hayward Term
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-03-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We argue that corner contributions in gravity action (Hayward term) capture the essence of gravity edge modes, which lead to gravitational area entropies, such as the black hole entropy and holographic entanglement entropy. We explain how the Hayward term and the corresponding edge modes in gravity are explained by holography from two different viewpoints. One is an extension of AdS/CFT to general spacetimes and the other is the AdS/BCFT formulation. In the final part, we explore how gravity edge modes and its entropy show up in string theory by considering open strings stuck to a Rindler horizon.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.01636,
title = {Gravity Edges Modes and Hayward Term},
author = {Tadashi Takayanagi and Kotaro Tamaoka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01636},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
35 pages, 12 figures; v2: typos corrected, references added