Generalised entanglement wedges in three dimensions
Abstract
Generalized entanglement wedges (GWs), proposed by Bousso and Penington for gravitating regions in general spacetimes, share many properties of ordinary entanglement wedges, including nesting, monotonicity and strong subadditivity of their generalized entropies. In AdS/CFT, the corresponding properties of entanglement wedges are consequences of the structure of the dual CFT. In this paper we ask whether the properties of GWs have a similar origin. We explore this question in vacuum AdS3 at leading order in G. We first show that every GW on a static slice is a union of geodesically convex regions. Each such region is an intersection of ordinary entanglement wedges, so every GW is built from unions and intersections of entanglement wedges. We then use the Crofton formula of integral geometry to write the perimeter of a convex region as the measure of the set of geodesics that intersect it. In AdS3 every geodesic is the Ryu--Takayanagi surface of a boundary interval, so this measure can be written in terms of the von Neumann entropies of CFT intervals. Strong subadditivity of the CFT entropy guarantees that the measure is positive. Monotonicity and strong subadditivity of GWs then follow from simple inequalities between sets of geodesics. The strong subadditivity of GWs is therefore a direct consequence of strong subadditivity on the boundary. Our results further suggest that GWs correspond to subsystems of the CFT that are more general than boundary subregions.
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BibTeX
@misc{sahu2026generalised,
title = {{Generalised entanglement wedges in three dimensions}},
author = {Abhisek Sahu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.07176},
eprint = {2610.07176},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07176},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Generalised entanglement wedges in three dimensions
AU - Abhisek Sahu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/14
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.07176
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07176
AB - Generalized entanglement wedges (GWs), proposed by Bousso and Penington for gravitating regions in general spacetimes, share many properties of ordinary entanglement wedges, including nesting, monotonicity and strong subadditivity of their generalized entropies. In AdS/CFT, the corresponding properties of entanglement wedges are consequences of the structure of the dual CFT. In this paper we ask whether the properties of GWs have a similar origin. We explore this question in vacuum AdS_3 at leading order in G. We first show that every GW on a static slice is a union of geodesically convex regions. Each such region is an intersection of ordinary entanglement wedges, so every GW is built from unions and intersections of entanglement wedges. We then use the Crofton formula of integral geometry to write the perimeter of a convex region as the measure of the set of geodesics that intersect it. In AdS_3 every geodesic is the Ryu--Takayanagi surface of a boundary interval, so this measure can be written in terms of the von Neumann entropies of CFT intervals. Strong subadditivity of the CFT entropy guarantees that the measure is positive. Monotonicity and strong subadditivity of GWs then follow from simple inequalities between sets of geodesics. The strong subadditivity of GWs is therefore a direct consequence of strong subadditivity on the boundary. Our results further suggest that GWs correspond to subsystems of the CFT that are more general than boundary subregions.
ER -