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Universal Terms of Entanglement Entropy for 6d CFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-22 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We derive the universal terms of entanglement entropy for 6d CFTs by applying the holographic and the field theoretical approaches, respectively. Our formulas are conformal invariant and agree with the results of [34,35]. Remarkably, we find that the holographic and the field theoretical results match exactly for the C2C^2 and Ck2Ck^2 terms. Here CC and kk denote the Weyl tensor and the extrinsic curvature, respectively. As for the k4k^4 terms, we meet the splitting problem of the conical metrics. The splitting problem in the bulk can be fixed by equations of motion. As for the splitting on the boundary, we assume the general forms and find that there indeed exists suitable splitting which can make the holographic and the field theoretical k4k^4 terms match. Since we have much more equations than the free parameters, the match for k4k^4 terms is non-trivial.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05538,
  title  = {Universal Terms of Entanglement Entropy for 6d CFTs},
  author = {Rong-Xin Miao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05538},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

38 pages, no figures, add more details of the derivations, typos corrected, accepted by JHEP