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We propose a covariant prescription to compute holographic entanglement entropy and Poincaré blocks (Global BMS blocks) in the context of three-dimensional Einstein gravity in flat space. We first present a prescription based on worldline methods in the probe limit, inspired by recent analog calculations in AdS/CFT. Building on this construction, we propose a full extrapolate dictionary and use it to compute holographic correlators and blocks away from the probe limit.
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Hijano, E., Rabideau, C. Holographic entanglement and Poincaré blocks in three-dimensional flat space. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 68 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2018)068
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