Timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomalies

Abstract We study the timelike entanglement entropy (TEE) in two dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) with gravitational anomalies. We employ analytical continuation to compute the timelike entanglement entropy for a pure timelike interval in such CFTs. We find that, unlike the real part, the...

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Main Authors: Chong-Sun Chu, Himanshu Parihar
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Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2025-08-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2025)038
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description Abstract We study the timelike entanglement entropy (TEE) in two dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) with gravitational anomalies. We employ analytical continuation to compute the timelike entanglement entropy for a pure timelike interval in such CFTs. We find that, unlike the real part, the imaginary part of the TEE displays an asymmetric dependence on the central charges of the left and right moving modes. We propose that the asymmetric dependence on central charges of the imaginary part of the TEE can be used to probe the presence of gravitational anomalies in chiral CFT. Furthermore, we propose a holographic construction to obtain the timelike entanglement entropy from the bulk dual geometries involving topologically massive gravity in AdS3. The holographic results obtained match exactly with the dual field theory results.
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spelling doaj-art-94e61fb842204617869f64f98a476e9f2025-08-20T03:45:40ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792025-08-012025812610.1007/JHEP08(2025)038Timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomaliesChong-Sun Chu0Himanshu Parihar1Department of Physics, National Tsing-Hua UniversityCenter of Theory and Computation, National Tsing-Hua UniversityAbstract We study the timelike entanglement entropy (TEE) in two dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) with gravitational anomalies. We employ analytical continuation to compute the timelike entanglement entropy for a pure timelike interval in such CFTs. We find that, unlike the real part, the imaginary part of the TEE displays an asymmetric dependence on the central charges of the left and right moving modes. We propose that the asymmetric dependence on central charges of the imaginary part of the TEE can be used to probe the presence of gravitational anomalies in chiral CFT. Furthermore, we propose a holographic construction to obtain the timelike entanglement entropy from the bulk dual geometries involving topologically massive gravity in AdS3. The holographic results obtained match exactly with the dual field theory results.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2025)038AdS-CFT CorrespondenceGauge-Gravity Correspondence
spellingShingle Chong-Sun Chu
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Timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomalies
Journal of High Energy Physics
AdS-CFT Correspondence
Gauge-Gravity Correspondence
title Timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomalies
title_full Timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomalies
title_fullStr Timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomalies
title_full_unstemmed Timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomalies
title_short Timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomalies
title_sort timelike entanglement entropy with gravitational anomalies
topic AdS-CFT Correspondence
Gauge-Gravity Correspondence
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2025)038
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