More of the bulk from extremal area variations

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  • Ning Bao
  • ChunJun Cao
  • Sebastian Fischetti
  • Jason Pollack
  • Yibo Zhong

It was shown recently in (Bao N et al 2019 Class. Quantum Grav. 36 185002), building on work of Alexakis, Balehowksy, and Nachman (Alexakis S et al 2017 arXiv:1711.09379), that the geometry of (some portion of) a manifold with boundary is uniquely fixed by the areas of a foliation of two-dimensional disk-shaped surfaces anchored to the boundary. In the context of AdS/CFT, this implies that (a portion of) a four-dimensional bulk geometry can be fixed uniquely from the entanglement entropies of disk-shaped boundary regions, subject to several constraints. In this note, we loosen some of these constraints, in particular allowing for the bulk foliation of extremal surfaces to be local and removing the constraint of disk topology; these generalizations ensure uniqueness of more of the deep bulk geometry by allowing for e.g. surfaces anchored on disconnected asymptotic boundaries, or HRT surfaces past a phase transition. We also explore in more depth the generality of the local foliation requirement, showing that even in a highly dynamical geometry like AdS-Vaidya it is satisfied.

Original languageEnglish
Article number047001
JournalClassical and Quantum Gravity
Volume38
Issue number4
Number of pages23
ISSN0264-9381
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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  • AdS, CFT, bulk reconstruction, holography, inverse boundary value problems, entanglement entropy, SPACE-TIME, PERTURBATIONS, MEMBRANES, SYSTEMS, STRINGS

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