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Theory Seminar: BRST vs. EPR - The Maxwell Story

Date:
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Location:
CP-179
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Ronak Soni:

The question of whether entanglement entropy in gauge theories is BRST invariant has an odd answer: two different representatives of a BRST cohomology class have different entanglements, but the replica trick path integral commonly used to calculate entanglement is invariant under BRST transformations. After short introductions to entanglement in gauge theories and Hamiltonian BRST quantisation, I will explain why this is so and how it evades the usual arguments about the equivalence between the path integral and the Hamiltonian pictures. Finally, I will comment on the possibility of a prescription to "fix" the Hamiltonian calculation -- to make it BRST-invariant and equal to the answer given by the replica trick.

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