Minimizations over Geometric Extensions in Holography.
Newton Cheng
Abstract
An important class of correlation measures for quantum states are the optimized correlation measures, defined as a minimization of a linear combination of von Neumann entropies over all purifications of a given state. We show that when considering such measures for holographic states, the minimum over all purifications can be achieved by only considering purifications with semi-classical geometric duals. We then apply this result to confirm the conjectured holographic duals of a large class of correlation measures, including the $n$-party squashed entanglement.