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Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy in $CFT_2$ and $AdS_3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-17 v2

Abstract

We show that in any two dimensional conformal field theory with (2, 2) supersymmetry one can define a supersymmetric analog of the usual Renyi entropy of a spatial region A. It differs from the Renyi entropy by a universal function (which we compute) of the central charge, Renyi parameter n and the geometric parameters of A. In the limit n1n \to1 it coincides with the entanglement entropy. Thus, it contains the same information as the Renyi entropy but its computation only involves correlation functions of chiral and anti-chiral operators. We also show that this quantity appears naturally in string theory on AdS3AdS_3.

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@article{arxiv.1510.08872,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy in $CFT_2$ and $AdS_3$},
  author = {Amit Giveon and David Kutasov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08872},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages; v2: reference added