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Extremality as a consistency condition on subregion duality

Ronak M. Soni

SciPost Phys. 17, 133 (2024) · published 13 November 2024

Abstract

In JT gravity coupled to a CFT, I argue without using the path integral that the entanglement wedge of a boundary region is bounded by a quantum extremal surface (QES). For any candidate not bounded by a QES, a unitary in the complement can make reconstruction within the candidate inconsistent with boundary causality. The case without islands is a direct consequence of subregion duality, and the case with islands can also be dealt with with a stronger assumption.


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