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Group Field theory and Tensor Networks: towards a Ryu-Takayanagi formula in full quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-05-16 v3 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We establish a dictionary between group field theory (thus, spin networks and random tensors) states and generalized random tensor networks. Then, we use this dictionary to compute the R\'{e}nyi entropy of such states and recover the Ryu-Takayanagi formula, in two different cases corresponding to two different truncations/approximations, suggested by the established correspondence.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1701.01383,
  title  = {Group Field theory and Tensor Networks: towards a Ryu-Takayanagi formula in full quantum gravity},
  author = {Goffredo Chirco and Daniele Oriti and Mingyi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01383},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

54 pages, 10 figures; v2: replace figure 1 with a new version. Matches submitted version. v3: remove Renyi entropy computation on the random tensor network, focusing on GFT computation and interpretation