On the completeness of contraction map proof method for holographic entropy inequalities

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Main Authors: Bao, Ning, Furuya, Keiichiro, Naskar, Joydeep
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author Bao, Ning
Furuya, Keiichiro
Naskar, Joydeep
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Furuya, Keiichiro
Naskar, Joydeep
contents The contraction map proof method is the commonly used method to prove holographic entropy inequalities. Existence of a contraction map corresponding to a holographic entropy inequality is a sufficient condition for its validity. But is it also necessary? In this note, we answer that question in affirmative for all linear holographic entropy inequalities with rational coefficients. We show that the pre-image of a non-contraction map is not a hypercube, but a proper cubical subgraph, and show that this manifests as alterations to the geodesic structure in the bulk, which leads to the violation of inequalities by holographic geometries obeying the RT formula.
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spellingShingle On the completeness of contraction map proof method for holographic entropy inequalities
Bao, Ning
Furuya, Keiichiro
Naskar, Joydeep
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
The contraction map proof method is the commonly used method to prove holographic entropy inequalities. Existence of a contraction map corresponding to a holographic entropy inequality is a sufficient condition for its validity. But is it also necessary? In this note, we answer that question in affirmative for all linear holographic entropy inequalities with rational coefficients. We show that the pre-image of a non-contraction map is not a hypercube, but a proper cubical subgraph, and show that this manifests as alterations to the geodesic structure in the bulk, which leads to the violation of inequalities by holographic geometries obeying the RT formula.
title On the completeness of contraction map proof method for holographic entropy inequalities
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18086