More on Holographic Volumes, Entanglement, and Complexity

Abstract

Motivated by the holographic prescriptions for computing entanglement entropy and complexity, we study the properties of volumes/areas of bulk surfaces. We obtain a simple formula for the shape dependence of holographic entanglement entropy in terms of a certain integral over the entangling surface. This easily generalizes to any bulk codimension-$p$ extremal surface. We study additional properties of bulk codimension-$p$ extremal surfaces corresponding to strip/plane "entangling surfaces" in various geometries. We compute universal terms for codim-one volumes (conjectured to be dual to holographic subregion complexity) arising from performing relevant deformations. Finally, we describe several interesting bulk surface constructions which are presumably related to holographic complexity.

19 pages, 6 figures

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