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Entanglement Entropy in String Compactifications

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-09-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider ZN\mathbb{Z}_N orbifolds of Type-II compactifications to four and six dimensions on several Calabi-Yau manifolds in the orbifold limit with the aim to compute the entanglement entropy. The spectrum can contain tachyons in the doubly-twisted sectors which can lead to new infrared divergences for the partition function that are not present in the orbifolds of the uncompactified ten-dimensional theory. We show that all tachyonic contributions in these models admit a resummation and analytic continuation that yields finite entropy in the physical region 0<N10 < N \leq 1 just as in ten dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13735,
  title  = {Entanglement Entropy in String Compactifications},
  author = {Atish Dabholkar and Upamanyu Moitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13735},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages; v2: Minor improvements, published in JHEP

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