Journal of High Energy Physics (Aug 2023)

Timelike entanglement entropy in dS3/CFT2

  • Xin Jiang,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Houwen Wu,
  • Haitang Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2023)216
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 8
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract In the context of dS3/CFT2, we propose a timelike entanglement entropy defined by the renormalization group flow. This timelike entanglement entropy is calculated in CFT by using the Callan-Symanzik equation. We find an exact match between this entanglement entropy and the length of a timelike geodesic connecting two different spacelike surfaces in dS3. The counterpart of this entanglement entropy in AdS3 is a spacelike one, also induced by RG flow and extends all the way into the bulk of AdS3. As a result, in both AdS3/CFT2 and dS3/CFT2, there exist exactly three entanglement entropies, providing precisely sufficient information to reconstruct the three-dimensional bulk geometry.

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