Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2021)

A generalized Momentum/Complexity correspondence

  • J. L. F. Barbón,
  • J. Martín-García,
  • M. Sasieta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2021)250
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2021, no. 4
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Abstract Holographic complexity, in the guise of the Complexity = Volume prescription, comes equipped with a natural correspondence between its rate of growth and the average infall momentum of matter in the bulk. This Momentum/Complexity correspondence can be related to an integrated version of the momentum constraint of general relativity. In this paper we propose a generalization, using the full Codazzi equations as a starting point, which successfully accounts for purely gravitational contributions to infall momentum. The proposed formula is explicitly checked in an exact pp-wave solution of the vacuum Einstein equations.

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