Abstract

The first law for the holographic entanglement entropy of spheres in a boundary CFT (Conformal Field Theory) with a bulk Lovelock dual is extended to include variations of the bulk Lovelock coupling constants. Such variations in the bulk correspond to perturbations within a family of boundary CFTs. The new contribution to the first law is found to be the product of the variation $\delta a$ of the “A”-type trace anomaly coefficient for even dimensional CFTs, or more generally its extension $\delta a^{*}$ to include odd dimensional boundaries, times the ratio $S/a^{*}$ . Since $a^{*}$ is a measure of the number of degrees of freedom N per unit volume of the boundary CFT, this new term has the form $\mu \delta N$ , where the chemical potential μ is given by the entanglement entropy per degree of freedom. View Full-Text