Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture

English

Etymology

Named after Shinsei Ryu and Tadashi Takayanagi, who jointly published the result in 2006.

Proper noun

the Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture

1. A conjecture within holography that posits a quantitative relationship between the entanglement entropy of a conformal field theory and the geometry of an associated anti-de Sitter spacetime.