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Entanglement entropy for free scalar fields in AdS

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-11-22 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We compute entanglement entropy for free massive scalar fields in anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. The entangling surface is a minimal surface whose boundary is a sphere at the boundary of AdS. The entropy can be evaluated from the thermal free energy of the fields on a topological black hole by using the replica method. In odd-dimensional AdS, exact expressions of the Renyi entropy SnS_n are obtained for arbitrary nn. We also evaluate 1-loop corrections coming from the scalar fields to holographic entanglement entropy. Applying the results, we compute the leading difference of entanglement entropy between two holographic CFTs related by a renormalization group flow triggered by a double trace deformation. The difference is proportional to the shift of a central charge under the flow.

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@article{arxiv.1608.00305,
  title  = {Entanglement entropy for free scalar fields in AdS},
  author = {Sotaro Sugishita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00305},
  year   = {2017}
}

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v3: 25 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected

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