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String Scattering and Evolution of Ryu-Takayanagi Surface

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-28 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, our aim is to illustrate that the process of open string scattering corresponds to the evolution of the entanglement wedge, where the scattering distance is identified as the entanglement wedge cross section. Moreover, open-closed string scattering, specifically the disk-disk interaction, works for the evolution of the reflected entanglement wedge, with the circumference of the waist cross section equating to the reflected entropy. It therefore provides evidence for the deep connections between the string worldsheet and the Ryu-Takayanagi surface. This connection is not only a coincidence rooted in hyperbolic geometry; it also reflects an additional correspondence between two distinct theories: mutual information and the geometric BV master equation.

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@article{arxiv.2408.12495,
  title  = {String Scattering and Evolution of Ryu-Takayanagi Surface},
  author = {Xin Jiang and Houwen Wu and Haitang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.12495},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v1: 18 pages, 14 figures; v2: minor corrections; v3: 22 pages, 17 figures, significantly revised, added the subsection (4.1) to study the relations between mutual information and the geometric BV master equation; v4: 25 pages, 20 figures, a section on the black hole information paradox added, version to appear in PRD

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:20:59.175Z