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Sphere Renyi entropies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-12 v2 Statistical Mechanics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

I give some scalar field theory calculations on a d-dimensional lune of arbitrary angle, evaluating, numerically, the effective action which is expressed as a simple quadrature, for conformal coupling. Using this, the entanglement and Renyi entropies are computed. Massive fields are also considered and a renormalisation to make the (one-loop) effective action vanish for infinite mass is suggested and used, not entirely successfully. However a universal coefficient is derived from the large mass expansion. From the deformation of the corresponding lune result, I conjecture that the effective action on all manifolds with a simple conical singularity has an extremum when the singularity disappears. For the round sphere, I show how to convert the quadrature form of the conformal Laplacian determinant into the more usual sum of Riemann zeta functions (and log2).

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@article{arxiv.1212.2098,
  title  = {Sphere Renyi entropies},
  author = {J. S. Dowker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.2098},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures. Conjecture on extremum of effective action on conically deformed manifolds made. References added

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