2024/03/31 by K. Narayan, Narayan, K., Hitesh Kumar Saini +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.00761
openalex publication_date 2024/03/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study holographic volume complexity for various families of holographic cosmologies with Kasner-like singularities, in particular with AdS, hyperscaling violating and Lifshitz asymptotics. We find through extensive numerical studies that the complexity surface always bends in the direction away from the singularity and transitions from spacelike near the boundary to lightlike in the interior. As the boundary anchoring time slice approaches the singularity, the transition to lightlike is more rapid, with the spacelike part shrinking. The complexity functional has vanishing contributions from the lightlike region so in the vicinity of the singularity, complexity is vanishingly small, indicating a dual Kasner state of vanishingly low complexity, suggesting an extreme thinning of the effective degrees of freedom dual to the near singularity region. We also develop further previous studies on extremal surfaces for holographic entanglement entropy, and find that in the IR limit they reveal similar behaviour as complexity.