Cutoff brane vs the Karch-Randall brane: the fluctuating case

TL;DR

This paper explores the effects of fluctuating Karch-Randall branes in AdS/BCFT through Weyl transformations, revealing their emergent nature and confirming the correspondence between balanced partial entanglement and entanglement wedge cross-section.

Contribution

It introduces a generalized AdS/BCFT setup with fluctuating KR branes via Weyl transformations and demonstrates the BPE-EWCS correspondence as a consistency check.

Findings

BPE coincides with EWCS in fluctuating brane configurations

Weyl transformations suggest KR brane emergence from boundary CFT

Confirms the BPE-EWCS relation as a non-trivial test

Abstract

Recently, certain holographic Weyl transformed CFT$_2$ is proposed to capture the main features of the AdS$_3$/BCFT$_2$ correspondence \cite{Basu:2022crn,Basu:2023wmv}. In this paper, by adapting the Weyl transformation, we simulate a generalized AdS/BCFT set-up where the fluctuation of the Karch-Randall (KR) brane is considered. In the gravity dual of the Weyl transformed CFT, the so-called cutoff brane induced by the Weyl transformation plays the same role as the KR brane. Unlike the non-fluctuating configuration, in the $2d$ effective theory the additional twist operator is inserted at a different place, compared with the one inserted on the brane. Though this is well-understood in the Weyl transformed CFT set-up, it is confusing in the AdS/BCFT set-up where the effective theory is supposed to locate on the brane. This confusion indicates that the KR brane may be emergent from the boundary CFT$_2$ via the Weyl transformations. We also calculate the balanced partial entanglement (BPE) in the fluctuating brane configurations and find it coincide with the entanglement wedge cross-section (EWCS). This is a non-trivial test for the correspondence between the BPE and the EWCS, and a non-trivial consistency check for the Weyl transformed CFT set-up.