Journal of High Energy Physics (Jan 2020)

On subregion action complexity in AdS3 and in the BTZ black hole

  • Roberto Auzzi,
  • Stefano Baiguera,
  • Andrea Legramandi,
  • Giuseppe Nardelli,
  • Pratim Roy,
  • Nicolò Zenoni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)066
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 1
pp. 1 – 32

Abstract

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Abstract We analytically compute subsystem action complexity for a segment in the BTZ black hole background up to the finite term, and we find that it is equal to the sum of a linearly divergent term proportional to the size of the subregion and of a term proportional to the entanglement entropy. This elegant structure does not survive to more complicated geometries: in the case of a two segments subregion in AdS3, complexity has additional finite contributions. We give analytic results for the mutual action complexity of a two segments subregion.

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