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Lavish Chawla

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arXiv2025

On the role of Area Metrics in AdS/CFT

We explore the potential role of area metrics, a generalised notion of geometry, in the AdS/CFT correspondence. Guided by the Ryu-Takayanagi formula and the first law of entanglement, we derive both a holographic dictionary as well as a bulk equation of motion for area metric fluctuations linearised around a four dimensional AdS background. Furthermore, we explore potential bulk Lagrangians that could give rise to the derived equation. It is shown that writing area metric fluctuations in terms of Lanczos like potentials gives rise to a particularly elegant bulk model.

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arXiv2025

Scale without Conformal Invariance in bottom-up Holography

In holography, the isometry group of the bulk spacetime corresponds to the symmetries of the boundary theory. We thus approach the question of whether (and when) scale invariance in combination with Poincar\'e invariance implies full conformal invariance in quantum field theory from a holographic bulk perspective. To do so, we study bulk spacetimes that include a warped extra dimension and in which the isometry group corresponds to scale without conformal invariance. Firstly, we show that the bulk Weyl tensor plays a pivotal role in distinguishing those metrics exhibiting conformal invariance (Weyl=0) from those merely exhibiting scale invariance (Weyl$\neq$0). Based on this, we then prove the following theorem: For putative boundary theories with $n\geq2$ dimensions, the bulk metric can not exhibit scale without conformal invariance if its warped extra dimension is compact and the null energy condition is required to hold. For $n=1$, we discuss that a more general ansatz for the bulk metric must be made, a detailed analysis of which is left for future research.

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arXiv2023

Entanglement negativity in $\text{T}\bar{\text{T}}$-deformed CFT$_2$s

We apply a suitable replica technique to develop a perturbative expression for the entanglement negativity of bipartite mixed states in T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed CFT$_2$s up to the first order in the deformation parameter. Utilizing our perturbative construction we compute the entanglement negativity for various bipartite mixed states involving two disjoint intervals, two adjacent intervals, and a single interval in a T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed CFT$_2$ at a finite temperature, in the large central charge limit. Subsequently, we advance appropriate holographic constructions to compute the entanglement negativity for such bipartite states in T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed thermal CFT$_2$s dual to BTZ black holes in a finite cut-off bulk geometry and find agreement with the corresponding field theoretic results in the limit of small deformation parameter.

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