Rényi entropies, the analytic bootstrap, and 3D quantum gravity at higher genus

Headrick, Matthew, Maloney, Alexander, Perlmutter, Eric and Zadeh, Ida G. (2015) Rényi entropies, the analytic bootstrap, and 3D quantum gravity at higher genus. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015, [59]. (doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2015)059).

Abstract

We compute the contribution of the vacuum Virasoro representation to the genus-two partition function of an arbitrary CFT with central charge c > 1. This is the perturbative pure gravity partition function in three dimensions. We employ a sewing construction, in which the partition function is expressed as a sum of sphere four-point functions of Virasoro vacuum descendants. For this purpose, we develop techniques to efficiently compute correlation functions of holomorphic operators, which by crossing sym-metry are determined exactly by a finite number of OPE coefficients; this is an analytic implementation of the conformal bootstrap. Expanding the results in 1/c, corresponding to the semiclassical bulk gravity expansion, we find that — unlike at genus one — the result does not truncate at finite loop order. Our results also allow us to extend earlier work on multiple-interval Rényi entropies and on the partition function in the separating degeneration limit.

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Contributors

Author: Ida G. Zadeh

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