Light-ray moments as endpoint contributions to modular Hamiltonians
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-09-29 v2
Abstract
We consider excited states in a CFT, obtained by applying a weak unitary perturbation to the vacuum. The perturbation is generated by the integral of a local operator of modular weight over a spacelike surface passing through . For the modular Hamiltonian associated with a division of space at picks up an endpoint contribution, sensitive to the details of the perturbation (including the shape of the spacelike surface) at . The endpoint contribution is a sum of light-ray moments of the perturbing operator and its descendants. For perturbations on null planes only moments of itself contribute.
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@article{arxiv.2103.08636,
title = {Light-ray moments as endpoint contributions to modular Hamiltonians},
author = {Daniel Kabat and Gilad Lifschytz and Phuc Nguyen and Debajyoti Sarkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08636},
year = {2021}
}
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LaTeX, 35 pages. v2: references added, version to appear in JHEP