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We study the holographic entanglement entropy and mutual information for Lorentz boosted subsystems. In holographic CFTs at zero and finite temperature, we find that the mutual information gets divergent in a universal way when the end points of two subsystems are light-like separated. In Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating geometries dual to non-relativistic theories, we show that the holographic entanglement entropy is not well-defined for Lorentz boosted subsystems in general. This strongly suggests that in non-relativistic theories, we cannot make a real space factorization of the Hilbert space on a generic time slice except the constant time slice, as opposed to relativistic field theories.
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Kusuki, Y., Takayanagi, T. & Umemoto, K. Holographic entanglement entropy on generic time slices. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 21 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2017)021
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