Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

The gravity dual of Rényi entropy

  • Xi Dong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12472
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The discovery that the entropy of black holes is given by their horizon area inspired the holographic principle and led to gauge-gravity duality. Here, the author shows that all Rényi entropies satisfy a similar area law in holographic theories and are given by the areas of dual cosmic branes.