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1Division of Theoretical Physics, Rudjer Bošković Institute, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia.
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Via constructing an explicit Lagrangian for which the perturbation equations are analogs of a scalar field propagating in a planar black-hole space-time, it is found that all planar black holes conformal to a Painlevé-Gullstrand-type line element can be realized as analog metrics. We also introduce the concept of holographic entanglement entropy for planar black-hole space-times. This is valid for an arbitrary choice of conformal and blackening factor, thereby vastly extending the number of known examples of explicitly known analog metrics.
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