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arxiv: 1512.04538 · v2 · pith:ZTTHFDTKnew · submitted 2015-12-14 · ✦ hep-th

On the reconstruction of Lifshitz spacetimes

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords lifshitzentanglemententropydifferentialspacetimeswedgebulkcausal
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We consider the reconstruction of a Lifshitz spacetime from three perspectives: differential entropy (or "hole-ography"), causal wedges and entanglement wedges. We find that not all time-varying bulk curves in vacuum Lifshitz can be reconstructed via the differential entropy approach, adding a caveat to the general analysis of \cite{Headrick:2014eia}. We show that the causal wedge for Lifshitz spacetimes degenerates, while the entanglement wedge requires the additional consideration of a set of boundary-emanating light-sheets. The need to include bulk surfaces with no clear field theory interpretation in the differential entropy construction and the change in the entanglement wedge formation both serve as warnings against a naive application of holographic entanglement entropy proposals in Lifshitz spacetimes.

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