Proto-Area Response Beyond Bulk Entropy
Abstract
We study how much of the proto-area response can be inferred from the bulk von Neumann entropy. In the perturbative holographic code setting considered by CCKLP and Witten, we keep the recovery frame fixed and analyze the response averaged over the GUE at second order in the encoding perturbation. Near the maximally mixed bulk spectrum, the response is fixed by the entropy through quadratic order. For d1≥3, spectral information first enters at cubic order through the third centered moment, so states with the same entropy can have different responses. We determine the resulting response range on small equal-entropy level sets and obtain its sharp leading D3/2 dependence, including the coefficient. The corresponding minimax error for prediction from entropy alone is one half of this range. For d1=2, the entropy instead determines the response exactly.
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BibTeX
@misc{xia2026protoarea,
title = {{Proto-Area Response Beyond Bulk Entropy}},
author = {Ling-Zheng Xia and Lixin Xu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.29432},
eprint = {2607.29432},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29432},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Proto-Area Response Beyond Bulk Entropy
AU - Ling-Zheng Xia
AU - Lixin Xu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.29432
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29432
AB - We study how much of the proto-area response can be inferred from the bulk von Neumann entropy. In the perturbative holographic code setting considered by CCKLP and Witten, we keep the recovery frame fixed and analyze the response averaged over the GUE at second order in the encoding perturbation. Near the maximally mixed bulk spectrum, the response is fixed by the entropy through quadratic order. For d_1≥3, spectral information first enters at cubic order through the third centered moment, so states with the same entropy can have different responses. We determine the resulting response range on small equal-entropy level sets and obtain its sharp leading D^3/2 dependence, including the coefficient. The corresponding minimax error for prediction from entropy alone is one half of this range. For d_1=2, the entropy instead determines the response exactly.
ER -