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Liouville Action as Path-Integral Complexity: From Continuous Tensor Networks to AdS/CFT

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We propose an optimization procedure for Euclidean path-integrals that evaluate CFT wave functionals in arbitrary dimensions. The optimization is performed by minimizing certain functional, which can be interpreted as a measure of computational complexity, with respect to background metrics for the path-integrals. In two dimensional CFTs, this functional is given by the Liouville action. We also formulate the optimization for higher dimensional CFTs and, in various examples, find that the optimized hyperbolic metrics coincide with the time slices of expected gravity duals. Moreover, if we optimize a reduced density matrix, the geometry becomes two copies of the entanglement wedge and reproduces the holographic entanglement entropy. Our approach resembles a continuous tensor network renormalization and provides a concrete realization of the proposed interpretation of AdS/CFT as tensor networks. The present paper is an extended version of our earlier report arXiv:1703.00456 and includes many new results such as evaluations of complexity functionals, energy stress tensor, higher dimensional extensions and time evolutions of thermofield double states.

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Complexity Inequalities for Quantum Subsystems

hep-th · 2026-06-18 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

Defines tripartite complexity and complexity gap for three-subsystem states and reports that the gap has definite sign across holographic CV, Fisher-Rao, and Krylov measures, suggesting it as a building block for complexity inequalities.

Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity

hep-th · 2025-07-31 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Holographic complexity measures show universal linear growth followed by late-time saturation, proven necessary and sufficient via pole structures in the energy basis using the residue theorem, arising from random matrix statistics.

SU(4) Heisenberg model on the hyperhoneycomb lattice

cond-mat.str-el · 2026-06-25 · conditional · novelty 5.0

Numerical iPEPS with loop expansions indicates the SU(4) Heisenberg model on the hyperhoneycomb lattice has a gapless quantum spin-liquid ground state, consistent with prior variational Monte Carlo results.

The Entanglement Wedge Polygon

hep-th · 2026-06-19 · conditional · novelty 5.0

The entanglement wedge polygon volume is proposed as a holographic probe of multipartite entanglement; in AdS3 it is topologically quantized, and a mixed-state generalization is constructed.

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  • Complexity Inequalities for Quantum Subsystems hep-th · 2026-06-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 91 · 2 links · internal anchor

    Defines tripartite complexity and complexity gap for three-subsystem states and reports that the gap has definite sign across holographic CV, Fisher-Rao, and Krylov measures, suggesting it as a building block for complexity inequalities.

  • Twirled Perfect Tensor Networks: Computationally covariant holographic tensor networks hep-th · 2026-05-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 29 · 2 links · internal anchor

    Twirled perfect tensor networks achieve computational covariance, bound complexity by the PLC, and obey a lattice Ryu-Takayanagi formula for arbitrary boundary subregions.

  • Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity hep-th · 2025-07-31 · unverdicted · none · ref 24 · internal anchor

    Holographic complexity measures show universal linear growth followed by late-time saturation, proven necessary and sufficient via pole structures in the energy basis using the residue theorem, arising from random matrix statistics.

  • Bridging Krylov Complexity and Universal Analog Quantum Simulator quant-ph · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 20

    Generalized Krylov complexity predicts the minimum time to realize target operations in analog quantum simulators such as Rydberg atom arrays.

  • SU(4) Heisenberg model on the hyperhoneycomb lattice cond-mat.str-el · 2026-06-25 · conditional · none · ref 62 · internal anchor

    Numerical iPEPS with loop expansions indicates the SU(4) Heisenberg model on the hyperhoneycomb lattice has a gapless quantum spin-liquid ground state, consistent with prior variational Monte Carlo results.

  • The Entanglement Wedge Polygon hep-th · 2026-06-19 · conditional · none · ref 48 · internal anchor

    The entanglement wedge polygon volume is proposed as a holographic probe of multipartite entanglement; in AdS3 it is topologically quantized, and a mixed-state generalization is constructed.