TY - JOUR
T1 - Nongeometric states in a holographic conformal field theory
AU - Guo, Wu Zhong
AU - Lin, Feng Li
AU - Zhang, Jiaju
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Bin Chen, Chong-Sun Chu, Bei-Lok Hu, Wei Li, Wei Song, Chushun Tian, and Yong-Shi Wu for helpful discussions. W. Z. G. is supported by the National Center of Theoretical Science. F. L. L. is supported by Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology through Grant No. 106-2112-M-003-004-MY3. J. Z. is supported in part by Italian Ministero dell’Istruzione, Università e Ricerca, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare through the “Gauge Theories, Strings, Supergravity” research and by Fondazione Cariplo and Regione Lombardia, Grant No. 2015-1253.
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PY - 2019/5/15
Y1 - 2019/5/15
N2 - In the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, we find some conformal field theory (CFT) states that have no bulk description by the Bañados geometry. We elaborate the constraints for a CFT state to be geometric, i.e., having a dual Bañados metric, by comparing the order of central charge of the entanglement/Rényi entropy obtained respectively from the holographic method and the replica trick in CFT. We find that the geometric CFT states fulfill Bohr's correspondence principle by reducing the quantum Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy to its classical counterpart. We call the CFT states that satisfy the geometric constraints geometric states, and otherwise, we call them nongeometric states. We give examples of both the geometric and nongeometric states, with the latter case including the superposition states and descendant states.
AB - In the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, we find some conformal field theory (CFT) states that have no bulk description by the Bañados geometry. We elaborate the constraints for a CFT state to be geometric, i.e., having a dual Bañados metric, by comparing the order of central charge of the entanglement/Rényi entropy obtained respectively from the holographic method and the replica trick in CFT. We find that the geometric CFT states fulfill Bohr's correspondence principle by reducing the quantum Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy to its classical counterpart. We call the CFT states that satisfy the geometric constraints geometric states, and otherwise, we call them nongeometric states. We give examples of both the geometric and nongeometric states, with the latter case including the superposition states and descendant states.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.106001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.106001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066432335
SN - 2470-0010
VL - 99
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 10
M1 - 106001
ER -