Zoo of Correlation Inequalities in Holography and Beyond
Abstract
Information-theoretic inequalities often impose nontrivial constraints on holographic states. In this work, we study measurement-based classical and quantum correlations in holography, focusing on the proposed duals of classical correlation , quantum discord , and one-shot distillable entanglement , defined in terms of the entanglement wedge cross section (EWCS). We develop a homological framework tailored to inequalities involving multiple EWCSs and Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces, and use it to prove a family of inequalities, including monotonicity and monogamy/polygamy-type relations, as well as one-way strong superadditivity. For strong superadditivity, we additionally confirm its two-way version using Haar random states. We also examine holography-inspired boundary duals in terms of the reflected entropy and provide proofs and counterexamples for their information-theoretic inequalities. Taken together, our results provide further evidence for the duality between the EWCS and its proposed boundary counterparts -- measurement-based correlations and one-shot distillable entanglement -- while also furnishing a unified, rigorous method for proving multi-EWCS inequalities.
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@article{arxiv.2511.21870,
title = {Zoo of Correlation Inequalities in Holography and Beyond},
author = {Kyan Louisia and Takato Mori and Herbie Warner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21870},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
67 pages, 19 figures (v1); 73 pages, 22 figures, correction of proofs, rearrangement of text moving larger proofs to appendices, typos are corrected, updated abstract (v2)