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Using the volume proposal, we compute the change of complexity of holographic states caused by a small conformal transformation in AdS3/CF T2. This computation is done perturbatively to second order. We give a general result and discuss some of its properties. As operators generating such conformal transformations can be explicitly constructed in CFT terms, these results allow for a comparison between holographic methods of defining and computing computational complexity and purely field-theoretic proposals. A comparison of our results to one such proposal is given.
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Flory, M., Miekley, N. Complexity change under conformal transformations in AdS3/CFT2. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 3 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)003
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