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Hyperbolic cylinders and entanglement entropy: gravitons, higher spins, $p$-forms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-11 v2

Abstract

We show that the entanglement entropy of D=4D=4 linearized gravitons across a sphere recently computed by Benedetti and Casini coincides with that obtained using the Kaluza-Klein tower of traceless transverse massive spin-2 fields on S1×AdS3S^1\times AdS_3. The mass of the constant mode on S1S^1 saturates the Brietenholer-Freedman bound in AdS3AdS_3. This condition also ensures that the entanglement entropy of higher spins determined from partition functions on the hyperbolic cylinder coincides with their recent conjecture. Starting from the action of the 2-form on S1×AdS5S^1\times AdS_5 and fixing gauge, we evaluate the entanglement entropy across a sphere as well as the dimensions of the corresponding twist operator. We demonstrate that the conformal dimensions of the corresponding twist operator agrees with that obtained using the expectation value of the stress tensor on the replica cone. For conformal pp-forms in even dimensions it obeys the expected relations with the coefficients determining the 33-point function of the stress tensor of these fields.

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@article{arxiv.2005.08402,
  title  = {Hyperbolic cylinders and entanglement entropy: gravitons, higher spins, $p$-forms},
  author = {Justin R. David and Jyotirmoy Mukherjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08402},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

52 pages, published version, improved treatment of the graviton

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