Holographic entanglement entropy for brane-world higher derivative gravity

Abstract Due to the splitting problem, it is difficult to derive the holographic entanglement entropy for general higher derivative gravity. Inspired by double holography and renormalized entanglement entropy, we develop a method to derive the generalized gravitational entropy for the brane-world hi...

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Main Authors: Rong-Xin Miao, Zi-Bing Xie
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Published: SpringerOpen 2025-03-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2025)015
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description Abstract Due to the splitting problem, it is difficult to derive the holographic entanglement entropy for general higher derivative gravity. Inspired by double holography and renormalized entanglement entropy, we develop a method to derive the generalized gravitational entropy for the brane-world higher derivative (BWHD) gravity. Remarkably, this approach is independent of the splitting problem. The so-called BWHD gravity is an effective theory on the brane, given by the counter terms of holographic renormalization. Interestingly, all solutions to Einstein gravity are also solutions to BWHD gravity. We first verify our approach can derive the correct results for curvature-squared gravity and then derive the holographic entanglement entropy for cubic BWHD gravity, which is the main result of this paper. We also derive the entropy of quartic BWHD gravity in flat space with constant extrinsic curvatures and perform several tests on our results. Finally, we briefly comment on our results.
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spelling doaj-art-03d36dcdb5f8418ca33fd516a9a63ed72025-08-20T02:11:58ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792025-03-012025312610.1007/JHEP03(2025)015Holographic entanglement entropy for brane-world higher derivative gravityRong-Xin Miao0Zi-Bing Xie1School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen UniversitySchool of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen UniversityAbstract Due to the splitting problem, it is difficult to derive the holographic entanglement entropy for general higher derivative gravity. Inspired by double holography and renormalized entanglement entropy, we develop a method to derive the generalized gravitational entropy for the brane-world higher derivative (BWHD) gravity. Remarkably, this approach is independent of the splitting problem. The so-called BWHD gravity is an effective theory on the brane, given by the counter terms of holographic renormalization. Interestingly, all solutions to Einstein gravity are also solutions to BWHD gravity. We first verify our approach can derive the correct results for curvature-squared gravity and then derive the holographic entanglement entropy for cubic BWHD gravity, which is the main result of this paper. We also derive the entropy of quartic BWHD gravity in flat space with constant extrinsic curvatures and perform several tests on our results. Finally, we briefly comment on our results.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2025)015AdS-CFT CorrespondenceClassical Theories of Gravity
spellingShingle Rong-Xin Miao
Zi-Bing Xie
Holographic entanglement entropy for brane-world higher derivative gravity
Journal of High Energy Physics
AdS-CFT Correspondence
Classical Theories of Gravity
title Holographic entanglement entropy for brane-world higher derivative gravity
title_full Holographic entanglement entropy for brane-world higher derivative gravity
title_fullStr Holographic entanglement entropy for brane-world higher derivative gravity
title_full_unstemmed Holographic entanglement entropy for brane-world higher derivative gravity
title_short Holographic entanglement entropy for brane-world higher derivative gravity
title_sort holographic entanglement entropy for brane world higher derivative gravity
topic AdS-CFT Correspondence
Classical Theories of Gravity
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2025)015
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