High Energy Theory Seminar

Due to the presence of a gravitational anomaly in topologically massive gravity (TMG), the geometric entropy is no longer simply the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) area; instead, it is given by the HRT area plus an anomalous contribution. In this talk, we will discuss the action of this geometric entropy on the covariant phase space of classical solutions for TMG. The result agrees precisely with the action of HRT area operators in Einstein-Hilbert gravity given in arXiv:2203.04270, i.e., it is a boundary-condition-preserving kink transformation. Furthermore, we will show how this result is consistent with direct computations of semiclassical commutators of geometric entropies in pure TMG spacetimes asymptotic to planar AdS, as computed in arXiv:2206.00027.

The talk is in 469 Lauritsen.

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