scholarly journals Noether current from the surface term of gravitational action, Virasoro algebra, and horizon entropy

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibhas Ranjan Majhi ◽  
T. Padmanabhan
Keyword(s):  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Surface Term ◽  
Gravitational Action ◽  
Horizon Entropy ◽  
Noether Current

scholarly journals Noether Current of the Surface Term of Einstein-Hilbert Action, Virasoro Algebra, and Entropy

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibhas Ranjan Majhi
Keyword(s):  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Surface Term ◽  
Hilbert Action ◽  
Noether Current ◽  
Cardy Formula

A derivation of Noether current from the surface term of Einstein-Hilbert action is given. We show that the corresponding charge, calculated on the horizon, is related to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. Also using the charge, the same entropy is found based on the Virasoro algebra and Cardy formula approach. In this approach, the relevant diffeomorphisms are found by imposing a very simple physical argument:diffeomorphisms keep the horizon structure invariant. This complements similar earlier results (Majhi and Padmanabhan (2012)) (arXiv:1204.1422) obtained from York-Gibbons-Hawking surface term. Finally we discuss the technical simplicities and improvements over the earlier attempts and also various important physical implications.

scholarly journals Noether current, horizon Virasoro algebra, and entropy

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibhas Ranjan Majhi ◽  
T. Padmanabhan
Keyword(s):  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Noether Current

scholarly journals Entropy of the isolated horizon from the surface term of gravitational action

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (19) ◽  
pp. 195002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Yong Zhang ◽  
Yu Tian ◽  
Xiao-Ning Wu ◽  
Shao-Jun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Surface Term ◽  
Gravitational Action

A Review of Conformal Field Theory in 2D

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1079-1105
Author(s):  
Rahul Nigam
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Critical Behavior ◽  
Verma Module ◽  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Insight Into

In this review we study the elementary structure of Conformal Field Theory in which is a recipe for further studies of critical behavior of various systems in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. We briefly review CFT in dimensions which plays a prominent role for example in the well-known duality AdS/CFT in string theory where the CFT lives on the AdS boundary. We also describe the mapping of the theory from the cylinder to a complex plane which will help us gain an insight into the process of radial quantization and radial ordering. Finally we will develop the representation of the Virasoro algebra which is the well-known "Verma module".  

scholarly journals On local and integrated stress-tensor commutators

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mert Besken ◽  
Jan de Boer ◽  
Grégoire Mathys
Keyword(s):  
Stress Tensor ◽  
Free Field ◽  
Virasoro Algebra ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Operator Product ◽  
Local Form ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Conformal Embedding ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
The Right

Abstract We discuss some general aspects of commutators of local operators in Lorentzian CFTs, which can be obtained from a suitable analytic continuation of the Euclidean operator product expansion (OPE). Commutators only make sense as distributions, and care has to be taken to extract the right distribution from the OPE. We provide explicit computations in two and four-dimensional CFTs, focusing mainly on commutators of components of the stress-tensor. We rederive several familiar results, such as the canonical commutation relations of free field theory, the local form of the Poincaré algebra, and the Virasoro algebra of two-dimensional CFT. We then consider commutators of light-ray operators built from the stress-tensor. Using simplifying features of the light sheet limit in four-dimensional CFT we provide a direct computation of the BMS algebra formed by a specific set of light-ray operators in theories with no light scalar conformal primaries. In four-dimensional CFT we define a new infinite set of light-ray operators constructed from the stress-tensor, which all have well-defined matrix elements. These are a direct generalization of the two-dimensional Virasoro light-ray operators that are obtained from a conformal embedding of Minkowski space in the Lorentzian cylinder. They obey Hermiticity conditions similar to their two-dimensional analogues, and also share the property that a semi-infinite subset annihilates the vacuum.

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