Holographic entanglement chemistry

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Publication date 15-05-2017
Journal Physical Review D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Article number 106015
Volume | Issue number 95 | 10
Number of pages 20
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

We use the Iyer-Wald formalism to derive an extended first law of entanglement that includes variations in the cosmological constant, Newton's constant and - in the case of higher-derivative theories - all the additional couplings of the theory. In Einstein gravity, where the number of degrees of freedom N2 of the dual field theory is a function of Λ and G, our approach allows us to vary N by keeping the field theory scale fixed or to vary the field theory scale by keeping N fixed. We also derive an extended first law of entanglement for Gauss-Bonnet and Lovelock gravity and show that in these cases all the extra variations reorganize nicely in terms of the central charges of the theory. Finally, we comment on the implications for renormalization group flows and c-theorems in higher dimensions.

Document type Article
Note © 2017 American Physical Society
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.106015
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85020179605
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