



01494nas a2200181   4500008004100000245005100041210005100092260001500143300001100158490000700169520100800176100001401184700001701198700002501215700001901240700001601259856003701275       2020                        eng d00aMore of the Bulk from Extremal Area Variations0 aMore of the Bulk from Extremal Area Variations  c12/24/2020  a0470010 v383 a<p>It was shown recently, building on work of Alexakis, Balehowksy, and Nachman that the geometry of (some portion of) a manifold with boundary is uniquely fixed by the areas of a foliation of two-dimensional disk-shaped surfaces anchored to the boundary. In the context of AdS/CFT, this implies that (a portion of) a four-dimensional bulk geometry can be fixed uniquely from the entanglement entropies of disk-shaped boundary regions, subject to several constraints. In this Note, we loosen some of these constraints, in particular allowing for the bulk foliation of extremal surfaces to be local and removing the constraint of disk topology; these generalizations ensure uniqueness of more of the deep bulk geometry by allowing for e.g. surfaces anchored on disconnected asymptotic boundaries, or HRT surfaces past a phase transition. We also explore in more depth the generality of the local foliation requirement, showing that even in a highly dynamical geometry like AdS-Vaidya it is satisfied.</p>1 aBao, Ning1 aCao, ChunJun1 aFischetti, Sebastian1 aPollack, Jason1 aZhong, Yibo  uhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2009.0785001465nas a2200145   4500008004100000245006900041210006900110260001300179520101400192100001401206700001701220700002501237700002001262856003701282       2019                        eng d00aTowards Bulk Metric Reconstruction from Extremal Area Variations0 aTowards Bulk Metric Reconstruction from Extremal Area Variations  c04/09/193 a<p>The Ryu-Takayanagi and Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi formulae suggest that bulk geometry emerges from the entanglement structure of the boundary theory. Using these formulae, we build on a result of Alexakis, Balehowsky, and Nachman to show that in four bulk dimensions, the entanglement entropies of boundary regions of disk topology uniquely fix the bulk metric in any region foliated by the corresponding HRT surfaces. More generally, for a bulk of any dimension , knowledge of the (variations of the) areas of two-dimensional boundary-anchored extremal surfaces of disk topology uniquely fixes the bulk metric wherever these surfaces reach. This result is covariant and not reliant on any symmetry assumptions; its applicability thus includes regions of strong dynamical gravity such as the early-time interior of black holes formed from collapse. While we only show uniqueness of the metric, the approach we present provides a clear path towards an\textit {explicit} spacetime metric reconstruction.</p>1 aBao, Ning1 aCao, ChunJun1 aFischetti, Sebastian1 aKeeler, Cynthia  uhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04834