Extremality as a Consistency Condition on Subregion Duality
arXiv:2403.19562 · doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.5.133
Abstract
In JT gravity coupled to a CFT, I argue without using the path integral that the entanglement wedge of a boundary region is bounded by a quantum extremal surface (QES). For any candidate not bounded by a QES, a unitary in the complement can make reconstruction within the candidate inconsistent with boundary causality. The case without islands is a direct consequence of subregion duality, and the case with islands can also be dealt with with a stronger assumption.
22 pages, 5 figures. v2: re-organised the paper and streamlined notaiton. v3: Added a high-level summary of the argument
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