Entanglement entropy in flat holography

• Main Authors: Hongliang Jiang, Wei Song, Qiang Wen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
• Series: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Subjects: Black Holes; Field Theories in Lower Dimensions; Gauge-gravity correspondence; Models of Quantum Gravity
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP07(2017)142

Abstract BMS symmetry, which is the asymptotic symmetry at null infinity of flat spacetime, is an important input for flat holography. In this paper, we give a holographic calculation of entanglement entropy and Rényi entropy in three dimensional Einstein gravity and Topologically Massive Gravity. The geometric picture for the entanglement entropy is the length of a spacelike geodesic which is connected to the interval at null infinity by two null geodesics. The spacelike geodesic is the fixed points of replica symmetry, and the null geodesics are along the modular flow. Our strategy is to first reformulate the Rindler method for calculating entanglement entropy in a general setup, and apply it for BMS invariant field theories, and finally extend the calculation to the bulk.