Relative entropy in higher spin holography release_pxrfjkh4zndyvdx5mfv5fhj5mi

Abstract

We examine relative entropy in the context of the higher-spin/CFT duality. We consider 3d bulk configurations in higher spin gravity which are dual to the vacuum and a high temperature state of a CFT with W-algebra symmetries in presence of a chemical potential for a higher spin current. The relative entropy between these states is then evaluated using the Wilson line functional for holographic entanglement entropy. In the limit of small entangling intervals, the relative entropy should vanish for a generic quantum system. We confirm this behaviour by showing that the difference in the expectation values of the modular Hamiltonian between the states matches with the difference in the entanglement entropy in the short-distance regime. Additionally, we compute the relative entropy of states corresponding to smooth solutions in the SL(2,Z) family with respect to the vacuum.
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