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Holographic timelike entanglement across dimensions
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Dibakar Roychowdhury
Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume: 2025, Issue: 11
Swansea University Author:
Carlos Nunez
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/jhep11(2025)100
Abstract
We develop a holographic framework for computing timelike entanglement entropy (tEE) in quantum field theories, extending the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription into Lorentzian settings. Using three broad classes of supergravity backgrounds, we derive both exact and approximate tEE expressions for slab, sp...
| Published in: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70944 |
| Abstract: |
We develop a holographic framework for computing timelike entanglement entropy (tEE) in quantum field theories, extending the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription into Lorentzian settings. Using three broad classes of supergravity backgrounds, we derive both exact and approximate tEE expressions for slab, spherical, and hyperbolic regions, and relate them to the central charges of the dual conformal field theories. The method is applied to infinite families of supersymmetric linear quivers in dimensions from d = 2 to d = 6, showing that Liu-Mezei and slab central charges scale universally like the holographic central charge. We then analyse gapped and confining models, including twisted compactifications and wrapped brane constructions, identifying how a mass gap modifies tEE and when approximate formulas remain accurate. In all cases, we uncover robust scaling with invariant separations and signature-dependent phase behaviour, distinguishing spacelike from timelike embeddings. Our results unify the treatment of tEE in both conformal and non-conformal theories, clarifying its role as a probe of causal structure, universal data, and non-perturbative dynamics in holography. |
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| Keywords: |
AdS-CFT Correspondence; Gauge-Gravity Correspondence |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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DR would like to acknowledge The Royal Society, UK for financial assistance. DR also acknowledges the Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS) grant (MTR/2023/000005) received from ANRF, India. C. N. is supported by STFC’s grants ST/Y509644-1, ST/X000648/1 and ST/T000813/1. |
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11 |