Aspects of Holographic Entanglement Entropy in Cubic Curvature Gravity

Abstract

In this thesis we explore general aspects of the entanglement entropy (EE) for Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) dual to Cubic Curvature Gravity. We derived a covariant expression for the EE by using a scheme inherited from the bulk renormalization method through extrinsic counterterms. We evaluate this functional in different entangling regions to calculate CFT data. In particular, we compute the $t_4$ coefficient of the 3-point function of the stress-tensor correlator by considering a deformed entangling region. We observe that there is a discrepancy between the outcomes attained through the employment of the EE functional for minimal and non-minimal splittings. We find that only the $t_4$ obtained from the non-minimal functional agrees with previous results in the literature that were computed by splitting-independent CFT methods for specific theories such as the massless graviton case.

72 pages, 6 figures, MSc Thesis