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Corner contributions to holographic entanglement entropy in non-conformal backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-28 v2

Abstract

We study corner contributions to holographic entanglement entropy in non-conformal backgrounds: a kink for D2-branes as well as a cone and two different types of crease for D4-branes. Unlike 2+1-dimensional CFTs, the corner contribution to the holographic entanglement entropy of D2-branes exhibits a power law behaviour rather than a logarithmic term. However, the logarithmic term emerges in the holographic entanglement entropy of D4-branes. We identify the logarithmic term for a cone in D4-brane background as the universal contribution under appropriate limits and compare it with other physical quantities.

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@article{arxiv.1506.07979,
  title  = {Corner contributions to holographic entanglement entropy in non-conformal backgrounds},
  author = {Da-Wei Pang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07979},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages, 1 figure, discussions in section 5.2 improved, typos corrected and references added