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Maximin Surfaces, and the Strong Subadditivity of the Covariant Holographic Entanglement Entropy

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The covariant holographic entropy conjecture of AdS/CFT relates the entropy of a boundary region R to the area of an extremal surface in the bulk spacetime. This extremal surface can be obtained by a maximin construction, allowing many new results to be proven. On manifolds obeying the null curvature condition, these extremal surfaces: i) always lie outside the causal wedge of R, ii) have less area than the bifurcation surface of the causal wedge, iii) move away from the boundary as R grows, and iv) obey strong subadditivity and monogamy of mutual information. These results suggest that the information in R allows the bulk to be reconstructed all the way up to the extremal area surface. The maximin surfaces are shown to exist on spacetimes without horizons, and on black hole spacetimes with Kasner-like singularities.

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Replica wormholes and the black hole interior

hep-th · 2019-11-27 · conditional · novelty 9.0

Replica wormhole geometries justify the replica trick computation of the Page curve in holographic black hole models and support entanglement wedge reconstruction via the Petz map.

Holographic Tensor Networks as Tessellations of Geometry

hep-th · 2025-12-22 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Holographic tensor networks constructed from PEE-thread tessellations of AdS geometry reproduce the exact Ryu-Takayanagi formula in factorized EPR, perfect-tensor, and random variants.

Inhomogeneous Jacobi equation and Holographic subregion complexity

hep-th · 2019-07-26 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

A variational perturbative method using the inhomogeneous Jacobi equation computes first-order changes in holographic subregion complexity for strip and disk subsystems under boosted black brane perturbations in AdS4, with the linear term vanishing for spherical subsystems.

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  • Replica wormholes and the black hole interior hep-th · 2019-11-27 · conditional · none · ref 6 · internal anchor

    Replica wormhole geometries justify the replica trick computation of the Page curve in holographic black hole models and support entanglement wedge reconstruction via the Petz map.

  • The entropy of bulk quantum fields and the entanglement wedge of an evaporating black hole hep-th · 2019-05-21 · conditional · none · ref 2 · internal anchor

    In a 2d evaporating black hole model, large boosts create O(1/G_N) gradients in bulk entropy that move the quantum extremal surface, causing the generalized entropy to follow unitary expectations with information disappearing after a scrambling time and a phase transition at the Page time.

  • Holographic Tensor Networks as Tessellations of Geometry hep-th · 2025-12-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 11 · internal anchor

    Holographic tensor networks constructed from PEE-thread tessellations of AdS geometry reproduce the exact Ryu-Takayanagi formula in factorized EPR, perfect-tensor, and random variants.

  • A Semiclassical Diagnostic for Spacetime Emergence hep-th · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · none · ref 10

    Evanescent quantum extremal surfaces, bounded in area but not generalized entropy, diagnose failures of spacetime emergence in holography.

  • Semiclassical algebraic reconstruction for type III algebras hep-th · 2026-05-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 58 · internal anchor

    Semiclassical crossed product constructions extend the algebraic reconstruction theorem to type III algebras and yield an algebraic Ryu-Takayanagi formula for holographic duality.

  • Inhomogeneous Jacobi equation and Holographic subregion complexity hep-th · 2019-07-26 · unverdicted · none · ref 40 · internal anchor

    A variational perturbative method using the inhomogeneous Jacobi equation computes first-order changes in holographic subregion complexity for strip and disk subsystems under boosted black brane perturbations in AdS4, with the linear term vanishing for spherical subsystems.

  • Modave lectures on energy conditions in quantum field theory and semi-classical gravity hep-th · 2026-05-18 · accept · none · ref 65 · internal anchor

    Review of classical energy conditions, their quantum violations, and information-theoretic bounds for semi-classical gravity, based on Modave lectures.