Inhomogeneous Jacobi equation and Holographic subregion complexity

Abstract

We derive a general expression for obtaining Holographic subregion complexity for asymptotically $AdS$ spacetimes, pertubatively around pure $AdS$ using a variational technique. An essential step in finding subregion complexity is to identify the bulk minimal surface of the entangling subregion. Our method therefore heavily relies on solutions of an inhomogeneous version of Jacobi equation, used to study deformations of the entangling surface for perturbations of the bulk metric. Using this method we have obtained the change in complexity for a strip and a circular disk like subsystem for \emph{boosted} black brane like perturbations over pure $AdS_4$. As a corollary, we find that for spherical subsytems in $3+1$ dimensional bulk, the linear change of subregion complexity for \emph{boosted} black brane like perturbations over pure $AdS_4$ , vanishes.