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Holographic entanglement entropy with conformal boundary conditions

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Pith's one-line read With conformal boundary conditions in AdS3, the Ryu-Takayanagi area law for entanglement entropy survives unchanged, and the fluctuating Weyl mode contributes no extra entropy.

desk verdict The bulk RT claim with conformal boundary conditions is solid and worth refereeing; the boundary-side c_eff derivation is real but rides on the conjectured Allameh–Shaghoulian dictionary. read the letter →

arxiv 2608.06277 v1 pith:ZLU3XKVP submitted 2026-08-06 hep-th

Elena Cáceres , Hare Krishna , Harita Palani Balaji , Vaishnavi Patil This is my paper
classification hep-th PACS 11.25.Tq04.70.Dy
keywords holographicentanglemententropyconformalboundaryconditionsRyu-TakayanagiformulaAdS3gravitytimelikeLiouvilletheoryTTbardeformationeffectivecentralchargereplicatrick
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The reading

This paper establishes that holographic entanglement entropy in three-dimensional AdS gravity is not modified when the usual Dirichlet boundary conditions are replaced by conformal boundary conditions that fix only the conformal class of the boundary metric and the trace $K$ of the extrinsic curvature, leaving the Weyl mode dynamical. Extending the Lewkowycz-Maldacena replica construction, the paper shows that the fluctuating Weyl mode contributes no additional entropy, so the entropy of a boundary subregion remains the minimal surface area divided by $4G_N$. For an interval $[-\phi_0,\phi_0]$ in global AdS the entropy is $S_A=\frac{\ell}{2G_N}\operatorname{arcsinh}\!\left(\sqrt{\frac{K\ell-\Delta}{2\Delta}}\,\sin\phi_0\right)$ with $\Delta=\sqrt{K^2\ell^2-4}$, and at high conformal temperature the entropy is governed by the effective central charge $c_{\rm eff}=\frac{3\ell}{2G_N}\frac{K\ell-\sqrt{K^2\ell^2-4}}{2}$. The paper also computes the entropy from the conjectured dual boundary theory, obtaining $S_{EE}=\frac{c_{\rm eff}}{3}\ln\!\left(\frac{2R\sin\phi_0}{\epsilon}\right)$, which independently realizes $c_{\rm eff}$ and clarifies that the no-insertion vacuum state is not the state dual to global AdS.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is the Lewkowycz-Maldacena replica construction and Dong's cosmic-brane argument, rerun with the conformal-boundary variational principle that fixes the conformal class of the boundary metric and the trace $K$ of the extrinsic curvature while leaving the Weyl mode dynamical. The argument localizes the replica-derivative of the action on the conical defect or on the minimal surface in the interior, where no conformal-boundary-specific term exists, so the result is exactly the area $A_{\min}/(4G_N)$. On the boundary side the machinery is the Zamolodchikov flow equation for the $T\bar T$ deformation, the Liouville saddle equation, and the Casini-Huerta-Myers map that turns the cylinder vacuum into a thermal state on hyperbolic space; the replicated thermal free energy then yields the effective central charge $c_{\rm eff}$.

What would settle it

Compute, directly in the deformed boundary theory, the entanglement entropy of the state dual to global AdS (the operator insertion with $h_{\min}<0$), which requires the full 2n-point correlators in the deformed theory, and compare with the bulk geodesic result $\frac{\ell}{2G_N}\operatorname{arcsinh}\!\left(\sqrt{(K\ell-\Delta)/(2\Delta)}\,\sin\phi_0\right)$; any disagreement beyond the stated cutoff identifications would falsify the boundary realization of $c_{\rm eff}$.

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Core claim

The central claim is that with conformal boundary conditions in AdS$_3$, the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription continues to hold unchanged: the entanglement entropy of a boundary subregion is $S_{EE}=A_{\min}/(4G_N)$, and the fluctuating boundary Weyl mode left dynamical by these boundary conditions contributes no extra entropy. The entropy of the full boundary is the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, obtained without adding counterterms appropriate to the conformal boundary conditions. For global AdS the subregion entropy is $S_A=\frac{\ell}{2G_N}\operatorname{arcsinh}\!\bigl(\sqrt{(K\ell-\Delta)/(2\Delta)}\,\sin\phi_0\bigr)$, and for rotating or non-rotating BTZ at high conformal temperature the leading entropy is Cardy-like with effective central charge $c_{\rm eff}=\frac{3\ell}{2G_N}\frac{K\ell-\sqrt{K^2\ell^2-4}}{2}$, matching the density-of-states result. The independent boundary calculation gives $S_{EE}=\frac{c_{\rm eff}}{3}\ln\!\left(\frac{2R\sin\phi_0}{\epsilon}\right)$ for the state with no operator insertions, which the authors stress is not the state dual to global AdS.

Load-bearing premise

The whole boundary-side result rests on the conjectured duality to a non-unitary theory (a CFT coupled to timelike Liouville and deformed by a marginal $T\bar T$-like operator) and on applying the standard subregion-to-thermal map to that theory, a step the paper checks only semiclassically.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The Ryu-Takayanagi prescription survives conformal boundary conditions unmodified: subregion entanglement entropy is the minimal area divided by $4G_N$, with no extra contribution from the fluctuating Weyl mode.
  • The full-boundary entropy in black hole backgrounds remains the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and is independent of the cutoff surface, hence invariant up to the Weyl class of boundary metrics.
  • At high conformal temperature and large interval size, the subregion entropy grows as $\frac{\pi c_{\rm eff}}{3\tilde\beta}L_A$ (with the angular-potential denominator for rotating BTZ), so entanglement growth and the Cardy density of states share the same effective central charge.
  • In the $K\ell\to 2$ limit the Liouville field decouples and the global AdS entropy reduces to $\frac{c_m}{3}\ln(\sin\phi_0/\epsilon_k)$ with cutoff $\epsilon_k=\sqrt{\Delta/(2(K\ell-\Delta))}$, reproducing the familiar UV-divergent logarithmic form.
  • The boundary calculation shows that the no-insertion vacuum state has entanglement entropy $\frac{c_{\rm eff}}{3}\ln(2R\sin\phi_0/\epsilon)$, so $c_{\rm eff}$, not the vanishing anomaly central charge, is the quantity that controls entanglement in this theory.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the semiclassical duality is exact, $c_{\rm eff}$ likely functions as the entanglement central charge of the deformed non-unitary theory, controlling Rényi entropies and mutual information; computing the required 2n-point twist correlators would test this directly.
  • The finite value of the entropy at fixed $K$ suggests the theory on the cutoff surface is best read as an intrinsic finite-size system whose UV cutoff is set by $K\ell-2$, rather than as a limit of an asymptotic CFT.
  • Because the state dual to global AdS carries an operator insertion with $h_{\min}<0$, the bulk arcsinh formula and the boundary vacuum formula describe different states; computing the boundary entropy with the $h_{\min}$ insertion would sharpen the proposed dictionary.
  • A check of exact marginality beyond the semiclassical order, for instance through cylinder or torus correlation functions of the conformal Brown-York stress tensor, would either confirm or break the claim that $c_{\rm eff}$ is an all-orders entanglement quantity.
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Summary. This paper studies entanglement entropy in AdS3 with conformal boundary conditions (CBC), which fix the conformal class of the boundary metric and the trace of the extrinsic curvature K while leaving the Weyl mode dynamical. The authors extend the Lewkowycz-Maldacena-Dong replica construction to this ensemble and show that the entropy of the full boundary is the Bekenstein-Hawking area, and that the entropy of a boundary subregion is still given by the Ryu-Takayanagi formula A_min/(4G_N). Explicit calculations are carried out for global AdS, non-rotating BTZ, and rotating BTZ; for an interval in global AdS the result is S_A = (ell/2G_N) arcsinh( sqrt((k-Delta)/(2Delta)) sin(phi_0) ), with k=K ell and Delta=sqrt(k^2-4). The paper also presents a boundary CFT calculation based on the conjectured dual of Allameh and Shaghoulian, which yields S_EE = (c_eff/3) ln(2R sin(phi_0)/epsilon) with c_eff = (3ell/2G_N)(K ell - sqrt(K^2 ell^2-4))/2. The authors emphasize that this no-insertion state is not the state dual to global AdS.

Significance. The bulk derivation is the main strength of the paper. The replica construction in Sections 3 and 4 explicitly imposes fixed K as the replica index n varies, and the result is cross-checked by a direct geodesic-length computation in Section 4.2 and by reduction to the HRT formula in the large-cutoff limit. The BTZ subregion entropies in Section 5 reduce to the Cardy-like density-of-states term with c_eff found in [19], providing a nontrivial consistency check. If the conjectured boundary dual of [19] holds, the Section 6 calculation provides an independent field-theoretic realization of c_eff and clarifies that the no-insertion state is not dual to global AdS. The paper is generally clearly written and the bulk calculations appear internally consistent.

major comments (1)
  1. [Section 6, Eqs. (6.34)-(6.49)] The boundary-side derivation of S_EE = (c_eff/3) ln(2R sin(phi_0)/epsilon) rests on the conjectured dual of [19] and on several unproven assumptions: exact marginality of the dressed T-bar-T operator lambda T-bar-T e^{-2Phi}, stress-tensor factorization in a theory with vanishing total central charge, and the applicability of the CHM map to this non-unitary theory. The authors themselves state in Section 7 that exact marginality is established only semiclassically, and Appendix C uses the classical relation b^2 = 6/c_m. If the one-loop beta function of the dressed operator does not vanish, the flow equation (6.34), the saddle equation (6.38), and the final entropy formula (6.49) would not follow. This does not affect the bulk RT result, but it makes the advertised boundary realization of c_eff conditional. The authors should either establish the one-loop marginality or explicitly present (6.49) as a conditional result throughout the paper, including the abstract.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Eq. (4.21)] The expression for log Z_n appears to contain a typo: from Eq. (4.20) one expects log Z_n = ell L_u (k - Delta)/(16 G_N n), rather than the printed form with K and n in different positions.
  2. [Abstract and Section 4] The abstract's statement that the fluctuating Weyl mode does not contribute additional entropy should be qualified as a leading-order semiclassical statement; one-loop fluctuations of the Weyl mode are not analyzed in the paper.
  3. [Section 7] There is a typo in the phrase 'h rmmin', which should read 'h_min'.
  4. [Appendix C] The notation 'eT eT' should be written as \tilde{T}\bar{T}; the current notation is confusing.
  5. [Equations (3.20) and (3.36)] The expressions for the extrinsic curvature K in the replicated BTZ geometries are difficult to parse due to nested fractions; a simpler presentation would improve readability.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central RT derivation is self-contained, and the boundary c_eff result is conditional on a clearly flagged conjectured dictionary rather than a circular reduction.

full rationale

The bulk derivation (Sections 3–5) is self-contained. The Lewkowycz–Maldacena/Dong replica argument with the CBC action (4.7) gives the area law at (3.11) and (4.22); the global-AdS subregion entropy (4.39) is reproduced by an explicit geodesic-length computation (4.45)–(4.48); and the BTZ results reduce in the large-cutoff limit to the standard HRT expression (5.11). The high-temperature coefficient π c_eff/(3 β̃) L_A in (5.16) and (5.24) is a comparison with the independently computed Cardy density of states of [19], not a fit. Section 6 computes the entanglement entropy in the conjectured dual theory of [19] using the stated dictionary μ=(Kℓ−2)/(16πGℓ), λ=16πGℓ, b²=6/c_m; the Liouville saddle (6.38)–(6.42) and on-shell action (6.44)–(6.46) yield the coefficient ℓ/(4G)(Kℓ−Δ), which is then identified with c_eff/3. That identification is nontrivial and is not the definition of c_eff. The paper explicitly flags its dependence: 'the conjectured dual boundary theory' in the abstract and Section 6, and 'exact marginality is established only semiclassically' in Section 7. Those are correctness/evidential caveats about an unproven dictionary, not circular reductions. No load-bearing claim of the RT formula reduces to [19].

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper does not introduce new free parameters fitted to data: the extrinsic curvature K is an external boundary-condition parameter, and the Liouville coupling mu and deformation parameter lambda are taken from the conjectured dictionary of [19]. The dynamically fluctuating Weyl mode is a pre-existing ingredient of conformal boundary conditions, not a new entity invented here. The main assumptions are the conjectured dual theory from [19], the applicability of the CHM map to that non-unitary theory, and the standard replica-trick assumptions on saddle dominance and symmetry.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Conformal boundary conditions define a well-posed variational problem for Euclidean AdS gravity, with Gibbons-Hawking-York coefficient alpha = 1/d.
    Invoked in Section 2 via equation (2.3) and used throughout; relies on prior work by Witten [6] and Anderson [7] on ellipticity, not rederived in this paper.
  • domain assumption The conjectured dual boundary theory of [19] is correct: a holographic CFT coupled to timelike Liouville theory and deformed by the marginal T Tbar e^{-2 xi Phi} operator, with dictionary mu = (K ell - 2)/(16 pi G ell), lambda = 16 pi G ell, b^2 = 6/c_m.
    Used in Section 6 to define the boundary action (6.19) and to compute the Liouville saddle. The paper inherits this conjecture and does not prove it. It is load-bearing for the boundary result (6.49).
  • ad hoc to paper The Casini-Huerta-Myers map can be applied to the non-unitary c_tot = 0 dual theory, and the Weyl-anomaly cancellation that makes the CHM frame consistent holds semiclassically.
    Section 6 and Appendix C assume that the CHM map transforms the cylinder vacuum to a thermal state on hyperbolic space, and that the Liouville kinetic plus background-charge terms cancel against the matter anomaly. The cancellation uses b^2 = 6/c_m and is explicitly noted as semiclassical in the discussion.
  • standard math The Zn replica symmetry is unbroken and the smooth replicated saddles with horizon radii scaled as 1/n dominate the path integral.
    Standard assumption in the Lewkowycz-Maldacena and Dong constructions, invoked in Sections 3 and 4.1. The paper checks smoothness locally for BTZ and for the static symmetric ansatz (4.12).
  • standard math The static U(1) times R symmetric ansatz (4.9) captures the relevant bulk saddle for subregion entanglement entropy.
    Used in Section 4.1 to derive the generalized RT formula. The paper notes this is not the most general ansatz but argues that near the brane the geometry can always be written in the form (4.23), which is the standard Dong argument.

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abstract

We study holographic entanglement entropy in 3-dimensional AdS gravity with conformal boundary conditions which fix the conformal class of the boundary metric and its extrinsic curvature, $K$, while leaving the Weyl mode dynamical. Extending Lewkowycz-Maldacena-Dong's replica construction, we derive the corresponding holographic entanglement entropy formula. We show that the fluctuating Weyl mode does not contribute additional entropy. The entropy of the full boundary is therefore the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, and the entropy of a boundary subregion continues to obey the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription, namely, the area of a minimal surface divided by $4G_N$. We carry out explicit calculations for global AdS, rotating and non-rotating BTZ geometries. For an interval in AdS$_3$ we find that the $K$-dependent holographic entanglement entropy is governed by $c_m=\frac{3 \ell}{2 G_N}.$ For a thermal state at high conformal temperatures we find that, the entropy is governed by $c_{\rm eff}=\frac{3 \ell}{2 G_N} \frac{K \ell- \sqrt{K^2 \ell^2-4}}{2}$, the same effective central charge that governs the Cardy-like density of states, in agreement with previous results in the literature. Finally, we also compute the entanglement entropy directly from the conjectured dual boundary theory - a holographic CFT coupled with time-like Liouville theory and deformed by a marginal $T \bar{T}$ like operator - and find $S_{EE} =\frac{c_{\rm eff}}{3} \ln\!\left(\frac{2 R \sin\phi_0}{\epsilon}\right) .$ This result for the state with no operator insertions (vacuum state ), provides an independent boundary realization of $c_{\mathrm{eff}}$ while clarifying that this state is not the state dual to global AdS.

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