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Holographic tensor networks from hyperbolic buildings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-11-23 v2 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We introduce a unifying framework for the construction of holographic tensor networks, based on the theory of hyperbolic buildings. The underlying dualities relate a bulk space to a boundary which can be homeomorphic to a sphere, but also to more general spaces like a Menger sponge type fractal. In this general setting, we give a precise construction of a large family of bulk regions that satisfy complementary recovery. For these regions, our networks obey a Ryu--Takayanagi formula. The areas of Ryu--Takayanagi surfaces are controlled by the Hausdorff dimension of the boundary, and consistently generalize the behavior of holographic entanglement entropy in integer dimensions to the non-integer case. Our construction recovers HaPPY--like codes in all dimensions, and generalizes the geometry of Bruhat--Tits trees. It also provides examples of infinite-dimensional nets of holographic conditional expectations, and opens a path towards the study of conformal field theory and holography on fractal spaces.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.01788,
  title  = {Holographic tensor networks from hyperbolic buildings},
  author = {Elliott Gesteau and Matilde Marcolli and Sarthak Parikh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.01788},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

29 pages + appendices and references, 4 figures, a few clarifications, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T09:18:38.177Z