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Renyi Entropies, the Analytic Bootstrap, and 3D Quantum Gravity at Higher Genus
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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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 symmetry 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 Renyi entropies and on the partition function in the separating degeneration limit.<br />Comment: 63 pages + refs
- Subjects :
- High Energy Physics - Theory
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1503.07111
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2015)059