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The holographic complexity is UV divergent. As a finite complexity, we propose a “regularized complexity” by employing a similar method to the holographic renor-malization. We add codimension-two boundary counterterms which do not contain any boundary stress tensor information. It means that we subtract only non-dynamic back-ground and all the dynamic information of holographic complexity is contained in the regularized part. After showing the general counterterms for both CA and CV conjectures in holographic spacetime dimension 5 and less, we give concrete examples: the BTZ black holes and the four and five dimensional Schwarzschild AdS black holes. We propose how to obtain the counterterms in higher spacetime dimensions and show explicit formulas only for some special cases with enough symmetries. We also compute the complexity of formation by using the regularized complexity.
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Yang, RQ., Niu, C. & Kim, KY. Surface counterterms and regularized holographic complexity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 42 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)042
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