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Vacuum expectation value of twist fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-27 v2

Abstract

Twist fields emerge in a number of physical applications ranging from entanglement entropy to scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional gauge theories. In this work, their vacuum expectation values are studied in the path integral framework. By performing a gauge transformation, their correlation functions are reduced to field theory of matter fields in external Aharonov-Bohm vortices. The resulting functional determinants are then analyzed within the zeta function regularization for the spectrum of Bessel zeros and concise formulas are derived.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02929,
  title  = {Vacuum expectation value of twist fields},
  author = {A. V. Belitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02929},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure

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