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Recently, a codimension two holography called wedge holography is proposed as a generalization of AdS/CFT. It is conjectured that a gravitational theory in $d+1$ dimensional wedge spacetime is dual to a $d-1$ dimensional CFT on the corner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Rong-Xin Miao

We revisit the covariant phase space formalism applied to gravitational theories with null boundaries, utilizing the most general boundary conditions consistent with a fixed null normal. To fix the ambiguity inherent in the Wald-Zoupas…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-21 Venkatesa Chandrasekaran , Antony J. Speranza

In recent years, the holographic duality between $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theory (CFT) and Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime with finite radial cutoff has received significant attention. The study of $T\bar{T}$ deformation within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Jing-Cheng Chang , Song He , Yu-Xiao Liu , Long Zhao

We discuss a non-dynamical theory of gravity in three-dimensions which is based on an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra that is closely related to an infinite-dimensional extended AdS algebra. We find an intriguing connection between on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-07 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Mehmet Ozkan , Mustafa Salih Zog

We analyze the Second Law of black hole mechanics and the generalization of the holographic bound for general theories of gravity. We argue that both the possibility of defining a holographic bound and the existence of a Second Law seem to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Daniel Cremades , Ernesto Lozano-Tellechea

We calculate the holographic three-point function parameters $\mathcal A$, $\mathcal B$, $\mathcal C$ in general $d\geqslant 4$ dimensions from higher curvature gravities up to and including the quartic order. The result is valid both for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Fei-Yu Chen , H. Lu

We use the holographic methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for field theories modified by $T\bar{T}$ insertion. Based on the available holographic proposals, this calculation reduces to the holographic computations in AdS with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Kuroush Allameh , Amin Faraji Astaneh , Alireza Hassanzadeh

Motivated by the holographic principle, within the context of the AdS/CFT Correspondence in the large t'Hooft limit, we investigate how the geometry of certain highly symmetric bulk spacetimes can be recovered given information of physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 Samuel Bilson

We show by means of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of quantum gravity how inter-representational relations - loosely speaking relations among different equivalent representations of one and the same physics - can play out as a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Rasmus Jaksland , Niels S. Linnemann

We develop a general approach to simplify the derivation of the holographic Weyl anomaly. As an application, we derive the holographic Weyl anomaly from general higher derivative gravity in asymptotically $AdS_{5}$ and $AdS_{7}$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Rong-Xin Miao

Given two otherwise decoupled $D$-dimensional CFTs which possess a common (finite) symmetry subcategory, one can consider entangled boundary states of their $(D+1)$-dimensional SymTFTs. This roughly corresponds to performing a gauging of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Ethan Torres , Xingyang Yu

A recent proposal by Ryu and Takayanagi for a holographic interpretation of entanglement entropy in conformal field theories dual to supergravity on anti-de Sitter (adS) is generalized to include entanglement entropy of black holes living…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey N. Solodukhin

We consider the entanglement entropy in the dS/CFT correspondence.In Einstein gravity on de Sitter spacetime we propose the holographic entanglement entropy as the analytic continuation of the extremal surface in Euclidean anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-29 Yoshiki Sato

We study entanglement entropy for parity-violating (time-reversal breaking) quantum field theories on $\mathbb{R}^{1,2}$ in the presence of a domain wall between two distinct parity-odd phases. The domain wall hosts a 1+1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Taylor L. Hughes , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar , Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy

We explore the emergence of gravitation from entanglement in holographic CFTs with gravitational anomalies. More specifically, the holographic correspondence between topologically massive gravity (TMG) with gravitational Chern-Simons term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Hongliang Jiang

In the vacuum state of a CFT, the entanglement entropy of singular surfaces contains a logarithmic universal term which is only due to the singularity of the entangling surface. We consider the relevant perturbation of a three dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Mostafa Ghasemi , Shahrokh Parvizi

The vacuum entanglement entropy of a general conformal field theory (CFT) in $d=5$ spacetime dimensions contains a universal term, $F(A)$, which has a complicated and non-local dependence on the geometric details of the region $A$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Pablo Bueno , Javier Moreno , Rodrigo Olea , Alejandro Vilar Lopez

We study the applicability of the covariant holographic entanglement entropy proposal to asymptotically warped AdS$_3$ spacetimes with an SL(2,R) x U(1) isometry. We begin by applying the proposal to locally AdS$_3$ backgrounds which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Dionysios Anninos , Joshua Samani , Edgar Shaghoulian

We propose a novel codimension-n holography, called cone holography, between a gravitational theory in $(d+1)$-dimensional conical spacetime and a CFT on the $(d+1-n)$-dimensional defects. Similar to wedge holography, the cone holography…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Rong-Xin Miao

We initiate a non-perturbative study of anisotropic, non-conformal and confining gauge theories that are holographically realized in gravity by generic Einstein-Axion-Dilaton systems. In the vacuum our solutions describe RG flows from a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-25 Dimitrios Giataganas , Umut Gürsoy , Juan F. Pedraza