Mixed-state extension of the holographic signal inequality
A novel inequality involving the residual information and genuine multi-entropy was proposed in \cite{Balasubramanian:2025hxg} for tripartite holographic pure states, using which it was argued, that purely GHZ-like tripartite entanglement is not allowed in holography. In this work, we generalize this holographic signal inequality to mixed states. In a minimal extension, we compute the reflected genuine multi-entropy following \cite{Yuan:2024yfg} and find a class of holographic geometries that violate this minimally extended inequality due to a vanishing Markov gap. We can symmetrize this prescription, where instead of computing the residual information on the given mixed state $ρ_{ABC}$, we compute it on its canonical purification. The inequality is restored on the canonically purified state. Finally, we conjecture a new inequality for tripartite holographic states and give supporting evidence.
Authors
- Joydeep Naskar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9732-5300)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2026-10-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/q2gy-kdfm
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara