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Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v1

Abstract

We consider 3d N>= 2 superconformal field theories on a branched covering of a three-sphere. The Renyi entropy of a CFT is given by the partition function on this space, but conical singularities break the supersymmetry preserved in the bulk. We turn on a compensating R-symmetry gauge field and compute the partition function using localization. We define a supersymmetric observable, called the super Renyi entropy, parametrized by a real number q. We show that the super Renyi entropy is duality invariant and reduces to entanglement entropy in the q -> 1 limit. We provide some examples.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2958,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy},
  author = {Tatsuma Nishioka and Itamar Yaakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2958},
  year   = {2015}
}

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39 pages, 4 figures

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