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Universal entanglement for higher dimensional cones

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-01-27 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The entanglement entropy of a generic dd-dimensional conformal field theory receives a regulator independent contribution when the entangling region contains a (hyper)conical singularity of opening angle Ω\Omega, codified in a function a(d)(Ω)a^{(d)}(\Omega). In arXiv:1505.04804, we proposed that for three-dimensional conformal field theories, the coefficient σ\sigma characterizing the smooth surface limit of such contribution (Ωπ\Omega\rightarrow \pi) equals the stress tensor two-point function charge CTC_{ T}, up to a universal constant. In this paper, we prove this relation for general three-dimensional holographic theories, and extend the result to general dimensions. In particular, we show that a generalized coefficient σ(d)\sigma^{ (d)} can be defined for (hyper)conical entangling regions in the almost smooth surface limit, and that this coefficient is universally related to CTC_{ T} for general holographic theories, providing a general formula for the ratio σ(d)/CT\sigma^{ (d)}/C_{ T} in arbitrary dimensions. We conjecture that the latter ratio is universal for general CFTs. Further, based on our recent results in arXiv:1507.06997, we propose an extension of this relation to general R\'enyi entropies, which we show passes several consistency checks in d=4d=4 and d=6d=6.

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@article{arxiv.1508.00587,
  title  = {Universal entanglement for higher dimensional cones},
  author = {Pablo Bueno and Robert C. Myers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00587},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

22 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; v3: minor modifications to match published version, references added

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