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arXiv:2505.15980 · Journal of High Energy Physics

Entanglement entropy of a scalar field in anti-de Sitter space

Konstantinos Boutivas, Dimitrios Katsinis, Ioannis Papadimitriou, Georgios Pastras, N. Tetradis

Published Nov 12, 2025• 2 citations
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Abstract

A bstract We study the entanglement entropy of a free massive scalar field at its ground state in (3 + 1)-dimensional AdS space in global coordinates. We consider spherical entangling surfaces centered at the origin of AdS. We determine the structure of the UV-divergent terms in the entanglement entropy and compute the numerical values of the respective coefficients. We confirm the connection between the coefficient of the logarithmic term and the conformal anomaly.

DOI
10.1007/jhep11(2025)064

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