Renormalized entanglement entropy and curvature invariants

• Main Authors: Marika Taylor, Linus Too
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2020-12-01
• Series: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Subjects: AdS-CFT Correspondence; Gauge-gravity correspondence
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2020)050

Abstract Renormalized entanglement entropy can be defined using the replica trick for any choice of renormalization scheme; renormalized entanglement entropy in holographic settings is expressed in terms of renormalized areas of extremal surfaces. In this paper we show how holographic renormalized entanglement entropy can be expressed in terms of the Euler invariant of the surface and renormalized curvature invariants. For a spherical entangling region in an odd-dimensional CFT, the renormalized entanglement entropy is proportional to the Euler invariant of the holographic entangling surface, with the coefficient of proportionality capturing the (renormalized) F quantity. Variations of the entanglement entropy can be expressed elegantly in terms of renormalized curvature invariants, facilitating general proofs of the first law of entanglement.