Entanglement entropy from the holographic stress tensor
arXiv:1303.1884 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/30/23/235032
Abstract
We consider entanglement entropy in the context of gauge/gravity duality for conformal field theories in even dimensions. The holographic prescription due to Ryu and Takayanagi (RT) leads to an equation describing how the entangling surface extends into the bulk geometry. We show that setting to zero the time-time component of the Brown-York stress tensor evaluated on the co-dimension one entangling surface, leads to the same equation. By considering a spherical entangling surface as an example, we observe that Euclidean action methods in AdS/CFT will lead to the RT area functional arising as a counterterm needed to regularize the stress tensor. We present arguments leading to a justification for the minimal area prescription.
10 pages. v3: many changes. Observation that the RT area functional arises as a counterterm to regularize the stress tensor added. Discussion on Euclidean methods for computing EE added. v4: version to appear in CQG
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