Anomalies and entanglement entropy

Tatsuma Nishioka, Amos Yarom
2016 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We initiate a systematic study of entanglement and Renyi entropies in the presence of gauge and gravitational anomalies in even-dimensional quantum field theories. We argue that the mixed and gravitational anomalies are sensitive to boosts and obtain a closed form expression for their behavior under such transformations. Explicit constructions exhibiting the dependence of entanglement entropy on boosts is provided for theories on spacetimes with non-trivial magnetic fluxes and (or) non-vanishing Pontryagin classes.
doi:10.1007/jhep03(2016)077 fatcat:lrph3bhx7nfyfps3bl4sznfz5e