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Holographic Entropy Relations Repackaged

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-29 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We explore the structure of holographic entropy relations (associated with 'information quantities' given by a linear combination of entanglement entropies of spatial sub-partitions of a CFT state with geometric bulk dual). Such entropy relations can be recast in multiple ways, some of which have significant advantages. Motivated by the already-noted simplification of entropy relations when recast in terms of multipartite information, we explore additional simplifications when recast in a new basis, which we dub the K-basis, constructed from perfect tensor structures. For the fundamental information quantities such a recasting is surprisingly compact, in part due to the interesting fact that entropy vectors associated to perfect tensors are in fact extreme rays in the holographic entropy cone (as well as the full quantum entropy cone). More importantly, we prove that all holographic entropy inequalities have positive coefficients when expressed in the K-basis, underlying the key advantage over the entropy basis or the multipartite information basis.

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@article{arxiv.1905.06985,
  title  = {Holographic Entropy Relations Repackaged},
  author = {Temple He and Matthew Headrick and Veronika E. Hubeny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06985},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

38 pages, 1 pdf figure; v2: fixed minor typos and added clarification comments, JHEP version

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