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Area law and OPE blocks in conformal field theory
by Jiang Long
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Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Jiang Long |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202010_00028v4 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | May 21, 2021, 3:50 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Jiang Long |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | 4th International Conference on Holography, String Theory and Discrete Approach in Hanoi (STRHAN2020) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
This is an introduction to the relationship between area law and OPE blocks in conformal field theory.
Author comments upon resubmission
1) The referee says: I still fail to understand the purpose of c. I can't find where a canonical normalization for Q is given. So why can't c be removed completely?
Our response: the constant c can be removed in principle. However, sometimes the normalization of the operator O is given, then Q still has the freedom to choose its own normalization. For example, usually, the stress tensor in integral of the modular Hamiltonian is defined unambiguously, then one should choose c=2\pi such that tr_A \rho_A=1.
2) The referee says: This sentence seems to imply that for m>2, D is not related to the normalization of operators. If so, why?
Our response: I rewrote the sentence. D also depends on the normalization of the operators.
3) The referee says: The universal constant $p_q$ in (3.1) depends on your operator normalization. How are you normalizing O?
Our response: I agree the constant $p_q$ depends on the operator normalization. I don't choose a definite normalization when I state general results. The normalization doesn't affect the validity of my results.
4) The referee says: Are you saying that there is no unambiguous way to regularize the divergences for non-integer weights...
Our response: No. I rewrote the sentence. I can't regularize the integral by straightforward computation for non-integer weights, but this doesn't rule out the possibility that the constant $p_q$ is still defined unambiguously by other means.
List of changes
1-line 25-26: I have changed the sentence to "...is a relatively unexplored topic in conformal field theory, though it has been defined and discussed at the early stages of conformal field theory."
2-line 41-42: I put "area law" in quotation marks and add a footnote to explain it.
3-line 42-43: I changed the sentence as the referee suggested.
4-line 47-48: I changed the sentence to "In all examples we studied, we found q = 0, 1, 2, but in general we do not rule out the possibility of other values."
5-line 85: I changed "nature number" in the original version to "nonnegative number".
6-line 163 : I rewrote the sentence as " we have restored the radius R that was previously set to 1". There are similar modification in line 229-230.
7-line 223-224: I changed the sentence to "For $m\ge 2$, the coefficients $D^{(d)}[\mathcal{O}_1, cdots,\mathcal{O}_m]$ are related to the normalization of the primary operators. For any $m\ge 3$, it also contains dynamical information of the theory."
8-(3.1): I added a footnote 3 to address the point that $p_q$ also depends on the normalization of the operators.
9-(2.47): I added a footnote 2 to explain equation (2.47).
10-line 312: I deleted original argument on cyclic identity, just mention that we could read out a cyclic identity (3.29) from (3.28).
11-line 334-336: I rewrote a comment on the regularization of the integral for non-integer conformal weight.
12-line 337: I changed the sentence to "For m\ge 4, the cyclic identity are ..."
13: Iine 28-30: I changed the sentence as the referee suggested.
14: line 262: I change "far away to" to "far away from".
Current status:
Reports on this Submission
Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 2) on 2021-6-29 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:scipost_202010_00028v4, delivered 2021-06-29, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.3065
Strengths
1- Proposes new observables in CFT. 2- Presents concrete computations and results.
Weaknesses
1- It is unclear whether the key quantity $p_q$ is unambiguously defined for general operators.
Report
I am unconvinced by the statement that "there should be an unambiguous way to define $p_q$ for general operators" on lines 335-336. The author does not propose any regularization scheme for general conformal weights, let alone showing that the result is independent of the regularization.
I would recommend the manuscript for publication after the remaining issues are addressed.
Requested changes
(2.18): In response to the author's reply about the meaning of the normalization constant $c$, while I understand the author's point, I personally find it very confusing. The author is saying that $Q_A$ has no predefined normalization, and one just chooses $c$ to suit the context. Due to this context-dependent $c$, $Q_A$ is not a linear functional of $O$. Besides, $Q_A$ is a scalar number, so without a predefined normalization, it has no unambiguous meaning. I personally think it would be much more satisfying if $c$ is set to be $2\pi$ for any $O$, in which case $Q_A$ is a linear functional.
lines 335-336: See report. I suggest that the author softens the statement or presents evidence for this claim.
I kindly ask the author to review the next revision more carefully, as new errors and typos have appeared in every past revision, e.g. for the current one,
line 223- cdots -> \cdots
line 337- identity -> identities

Anonymous on 2021-06-07 [id 1492]
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