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A perturbative expansion for entanglement entropy in string theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-06-26 v4

Abstract

We derive a perturbative expansion for space time entanglement entropy in string theory by comparing replica trick constructions on the target space and on the worldsheet. Requiring the two approaches to match implies a set of constrains on the amplitudes involved and produces a non-trivial relation among target space and world sheet entanglement. We will be mainly interested in bosonic string on a flat background but also discuss the superstring generalization.

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@article{arxiv.1805.09311,
  title  = {A perturbative expansion for entanglement entropy in string theory},
  author = {Andrea Prudenziati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.09311},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

A new section with an explicit computation has been added, together with a few minor corrections. A couple of errors have been fixed. Matches the version accepted for publication

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