The entropy of finite gravitating regions

Balasubramanian, Vijay; Cummings, Charlie

The entropy of finite gravitating regions

Vijay Balasubramanian
(
- Pennsylvania U. and
- Santa Fe Inst. and
- Vrije U., Brussels
)
,
Charlie Cummings
(
- Pennsylvania U.
)

Dec 13, 2023

34 pages

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2312.08434 [hep-th]

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We develop a formalism for calculating the entanglement entropy of an arbitrary spatial region of a gravitating spacetime at a moment of time symmetry. The crucial ingredient is a path integral over embeddings of the region into the overall spacetime, interpretable as a sum over the edge modes associated with the region. We find that the entanglement entropy of a gravitating region equals the minimal surface area among all regions that enclose it. This suggests a notion of "terrestrial holography" where regions of space can encode larger ones, in contrast to the standard form of holography, in which degrees of freedom on the celestial sphere at the boundary of the universe encode the interior.

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29 pages, 8 figures. v3: Expanded Sec. 3.4 and 4, added references, fixed typos

entropy: entanglement
surface: minimal
gravitation: entropy
entropy: finite
time: symmetry
space-time
holography
path integral
sphere
moment

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