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Free compact boson on branched coverings of the torus

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-31 v5

Abstract

We have studied the free compact boson on a nn-sheeted covering of the torus gluing alone mm branch cuts. It is interesting because when the branched cuts are chosen to be real, the partition function is related to the nn-th R\'enyi entanglement entropy of mm disjoint intervals in a finite system at finite temperature. After proposing a canonical homology basis and its dual basis of the covering surface, we find that the partition function can be written in terms of theta functions.

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@article{arxiv.1610.09685,
  title  = {Free compact boson on branched coverings of the torus},
  author = {Feihu Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09685},
  year   = {2017}
}