A refinement of entanglement entropy and the number of degrees of freedom

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Hong ^a   Mezei, Márk ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928252668     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)162     Document Type: Article

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