2016
Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action?
Abstract: We conjecture that the quantum complexity of a holographic state is dual to the action of a certain spacetime region that we call a Wheeler-DeWitt patch. We illustrate and test the conjecture in the context of neutral, charged, and rotating black holes in anti-de Sitter spacetime, as well as black holes perturbed with static shells and with shock waves. This conjecture evolved from a previous conjecture that complexity is dual to spatial volume, but appears to be a major improvement over the original. In light…
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“…22 Therefore dC A /dt 0 is monotonically increasing and approaches the late time limit from below. These features contrast with the corresponding results for the eternal black hole [48], and as previously noted in [50], for the process of black hole formation, dC A /dt 0 respects the proposed bound on the rate of complexity growth suggested in [29,30], i.e., dC A /dt 0 ≤ 2M/π.…”
Section: Jhep06(2018)046contrasting
confidence: 99%
“…22 Therefore dC A /dt 0 is monotonically increasing and approaches the late time limit from below. These features contrast with the corresponding results for the eternal black hole [48], and as previously noted in [50], for the process of black hole formation, dC A /dt 0 respects the proposed bound on the rate of complexity growth suggested in [29,30], i.e., dC A /dt 0 ≤ 2M/π.…”
Section: Jhep06(2018)046contrasting
confidence: 99%
“…if we set k = 4/π. Remarkably, the relation (44) reflecting the growth of the complexity based on the CV duality is consistent to the result based on the complexity-action duality for all uncharged nonrotating AdS black holes in any spacetime dimensions [47,[50][51][52][53][54].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 82%
“…Strictly speaking, we should consider this result to hold in a regime where the mass is much larger than the charge, but the charge is still large enough that the inner horizon is not 'close' to the singularity. The vanishing ofĊ A at extremality is in line with results from Einstein gravity [39,40,43]. However, we note that a very interesting behavior appears in neutral black holes in even dimensions due to the appearance of M min .…”
supporting
confidence: 90%
