Fermions on replica geometries and the - relation

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2019.V13.N1.A8zbMATH Open1414.81216arXiv1805.11114MaRDI QIDQ2418751FDOQ2418751

Sameer Murthy, Sunil Mukhi

Publication date: 28 May 2019

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In arXiv:1706:09426 we conjectured and provided evidence for an identity between Siegel $Theta$-constants for special Riemann surfaces of genus $n$ and products of Jacobi $heta$-functions. This arises by comparing two different ways of computing the th Renyi entropy of free fermions at finite temperature. Here we show that for $n=2$ the identity is a consequence of an old result due to Fay for doubly branched Riemann surfaces. For $n>2$ we provide a detailed matching of certain zeros on both sides of the identity. This amounts to an elementary proof of the identity for $n=2$, while for $nge3$ it gives new evidence for it. We explain why the existence of additional zeros renders the general proof difficult.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11114

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryentanglement entropy[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=R%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDnyi+entropy&go=Go R��nyi entropy]

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Theta functions and abelian varieties (14K25) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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