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Analyzing reduced density matrices in SU(2) Chern-Simons theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-08 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the reduced density matrices obtained for the quantum states in the context of 3d Chern-Simons theory with gauge group SU(2) and Chern-Simons level kk. We focus on the quantum states associated with the Tp,pT_{p,p} torus link complements, which is a pp-party pure quantum state. The reduced density matrices are obtained by taking the (1p1)(1|p-1) bi-partition of the total system. We show that the characteristic polynomials of these reduced density matrices are monic polynomials with rational coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.2504.10098,
  title  = {Analyzing reduced density matrices in SU(2) Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {Atesh Saini and Siddharth Dwivedi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.10098},
  year   = {2026}
}

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11 pages, 4 tables

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