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The Complexity of Identifying Ryu-Takayanagi Surfaces in AdS3/CFT2

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-23 v2 Computational Complexity General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We present a constructive algorithm for the determination of Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces in AdS3/CFT2 which exploits previously noted connections between holographic entanglement entropy and max-flow/min-cut. We then characterize its complexity as a polynomial time algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.1609.01727,
  title  = {The Complexity of Identifying Ryu-Takayanagi Surfaces in AdS3/CFT2},
  author = {Ning Bao and Aidan Chatwin-Davies},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01727},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages, 4 figures, v2: small typo fixes, added Ref. [10]