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The Holographic Entropy Cone for Five Regions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-15 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

Even though little is known about the quantum entropy cone for N4N\geq4 subsystems, holographic techniques allow one to get a handle on the subspace of entropy vectors corresponding to states with gravity duals. For static spacetimes and NN boundary subsystems, this space is a convex polyhedral cone known as the holographic entropy cone CN\mathcal{C}_N for NN regions. While an explicit description of CN\mathcal{C}_N was accomplished for all N4N\leq4 in the initial study, the information given about larger NN was only partial already for C5\mathcal{C}_5. This letter provides a complete construction of C5\mathcal{C}_5 by exhibiting graph models for every extreme ray orbit generating the cone defined by all proven holographic entropy inequalities for N=5N=5. The question of whether there exist additional inequalities for 55 parties is thus settled with a negative answer. The conjecture that C5\mathcal{C}_5 coincides with the analogous cone for dynamical spacetimes is supported by demonstrating that the information quantities defining its facets are primitive.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09148,
  title  = {The Holographic Entropy Cone for Five Regions},
  author = {Sergio Hernández-Cuenca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09148},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages, 19 graphs; v2: minor changes, references added, comments about six regions revised and a new inequality included; v3: essentially matches published version

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