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In this paper we apply the discrete gravity and Regge calculus to tensor networks and Anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence. We construct the boundary many-body quantum state $|\Psi\rangle$ using random tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-30 Muxin Han , Shilin Huang

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Tatsuma Nishioka , Itamar Yaakov

In this paper we investigate the holographic R\'enyi entropy of two disjoint intervals on complex plane with small cross ratio $x$ for conformal field theory with $W$ symmetry in the ground state, which could be dual to a higher spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-20 Bin Chen , Jiang Long , Jia-ju Zhang

The holographic entanglement entropy functional for higher-curvature gravities involves a weighted sum whose evaluation, beyond quadratic order, requires a complicated theory-dependent splitting of the Riemann tensor components. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Pablo Bueno , Joan Camps , Alejandro Vilar López

We consider a model of 3d quantum gravity defined by $n$ copies of a rational Virasoro TQFT with central charge $1/2$, summed over all 3d topologies. This theory is holographically dual to an ensemble of all 2d CFTs with central charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Anatoly Dymarsky

We perform a detailed analysis of holographic entanglement R\'enyi entropy in some modified theories of gravity with four dimensional conformal field theory duals. First, we construct perturbative black hole solutions in a recently proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-25 Anshuman Dey , Pratim Roy , Tapobrata Sarkar

We consider the semiclassical limit of the vacuum Virasoro block describing the diagonal 4-point correlation functions on the sphere. At large central charge c, after exponentiation, it depends on two fixed ratios h_H/c and h_L/c, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Matteo Beccaria , Alberto Fachechi , Guido Macorini

We give a recipe for computing correlation functions of the displacement operator localized on a spherical or planar higher dimensional twist defect using AdS/CFT. Such twist operators are typically used to construct the $n$'th Renyi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-06 Srivatsan Balakrishnan , Souvik Dutta , Thomas Faulkner

We discuss the quantization and holographic aspects of a class of conical spaces in 2+1 dimensional pure AdS gravity. These appear as topological solitons in the Chern-Simons formulation of the theory and are closely related to the recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Joris Raeymaekers

We establish a precise relation between the modular bootstrap, used to constrain the spectrum of 2D CFTs, and the sphere packing problem in Euclidean geometry. The modular bootstrap bound for chiral algebra $U(1)^c$ maps exactly to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Thomas Hartman , Dalimil Mazáč , Leonardo Rastelli

We extend the approach of Casini, Huerta and Myers to a new calculation of the Renyi entropy of a general CFT in d dimensions with a spherical entangling surface, in terms of certain thermal partition functions. We apply this approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-07 Janet Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin , Alexandre Yale

The recent study in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence shows that the tree level contribution and 1-loop correction of holographic R\'enyi entanglement entropy (HRE) exactly match the direct CFT computation in the large central charge limit.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-29 Bin Chen , Feng-yan Song , Jia-ju Zhang

We study the conformal bootstrap for 4-point functions of fermions $\langle \psi_i \psi_j \psi_k \psi_{\ell} \rangle$ in parity-preserving 3d CFTs, where $\psi_i$ transforms as a vector under an $O(N)$ global symmetry. We compute bounds on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Luca Iliesiu , Filip Kos , David Poland , Silviu S. Pufu , David Simmons-Duffin

For a static time slice of AdS$_3$ we describe a particular class of minimal surfaces which form trivalent networks of geodesics. Through geometric arguments we provide evidence that these surfaces describe a measure of multipartite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-15 Jonathan Harper , Tadashi Takayanagi , Takashi Tsuda

Three-dimensional Topologically Massive Gravity at its critical point has been conjectured to be holographically dual to a Logarithmic CFT. However, many details of this correspondence are still lacking. In this work, we study the 1-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Yannick Mvondo-She , Konstantinos Zoubos

The Monster CFT plays an important role in moonshine and is also conjectured to be the holographic dual to pure gravity in AdS3. We investigate the entanglement and Renyi entropies of this theory along with other extremal CFTs. The Renyi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-24 Diptarka Das , Shouvik Datta , Sridip Pal

In topological 1D gravity, the genus zero one-point function combined with the gradient of the action function leads to a spectral curve and its special deformation. After quantization, the partition function is identified as an element in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 Jian Zhou

We study holographic entanglement entropy in four-dimensional quantum gravity with negative cosmological constant. By using the replica trick and evaluating path integrals in the minisuperspace approximation, in conjunction with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-15 Shinji Hirano

We study the evolution of symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in bulk-driven Floquet conformal field theories (CFTs). Focusing on the two-dimensional free compact boson CFT, we analyze how symmetry-resolved R\'enyi entropies approach or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Filiberto Ares , Jayashish Das , Arnab Kundu

We study two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with boundaries via the conformal bootstrap. We derive a positive semi-definite program from crossing symmetry of three observables: the annulus partition function, the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Marco Meineri , Bharathkumar Radhakrishnan