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arxiv: 1412.2730 · v5 · pith:T4S3K64Ynew · submitted 2014-12-08 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc· quant-ph

Central Charge and Entangled Gauge Fields

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qcquant-ph
keywords entanglementgaugeboundaryentropyfieldssurfacetermaction
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Entanglement entropy of gauge fields is calculated using the partition function in curved spacetime with a boundary. We derive a Gibbons-Hawking-like term from a Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) action and a Wald-entropy-like codimension-2 surface term is produced. It is further suggested that boundary degrees of freedom localized on the entanglement surface generated from the gauge redundancy could be used to resolve a subtle mismatch in a universal conformal anomaly- entanglement entropy relation.

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