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Generalized entanglement entropy and holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-07-06 v1

Abstract

In this work, we first introduce a generalized von Neumann entropy that depends only on the density matrix. This is based on a previous proposal by one of us modifying the Shannon entropy by considering non-equilibrium systems on stationary states, and an entropy functional depending only on the probability. We propose a generalization of the replica trick and find that the resulting modified von Neumann entropy is precisely the previous mentioned entropy that was obtained by other assumptions. Then, we address the question whether alternative entanglement entropies can play a role in the gauge/gravity duality. Our focus are 2d CFT and their gravity duals. Our results show corrections to the von Neumann entropy S0S_0 that are larger than the usual UVUV ones and also than the corrections to the length dependent AdS3AdS_3 entropy which result comparable to the UVUV ones. The correction terms due to the new entropy would modify the Ryu-Takayanagi identification between the CFT and the gravitational AdS3AdS_3 entropies.

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@article{arxiv.1507.00779,
  title  = {Generalized entanglement entropy and holography},
  author = {Nana Cabo Bizet and Octavio Obregón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00779},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages

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