Minimal surfaces in semiclassical gravity

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• Josh Kirklin (University of Cambridge)
• Friday 12 October 2018, 13:00-14:00
• Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

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In holography, the Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture relates the entropy associated to a region on the boundary with the area of a certain minimal surface in the bulk. I will describe the standard arguments for the validity of this conjecture, and argue that these arguments suffer from a common weakness – their use of the so-called ‘replica trick’. I will then present a new approach to proving the conjecture which does not rely upon the replica trick.

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