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Ryu-Takayanagi Area as an Entanglement Edge Term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-07-24 v3

Abstract

By comparing entanglement in emergent gauge theories to the bulk in AdS/CFT, I suggest that the Ryu-Takayanagi area term is an entanglement edge term related to a natural measure on the gauge group. The main technical result in this paper is an argument why the "extended Hilbert space" definition of entanglement entropy in a lattice gauge theory is applicable to an emergent gauge theory.

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@article{arxiv.1704.07763,
  title  = {Ryu-Takayanagi Area as an Entanglement Edge Term},
  author = {Jennifer Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07763},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

21 pages, 5 figures. v2: revised for clarity, refs added. v3: note added in light of later work

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