Beyond Logarithmic Corrections to Cardy Formula
arXiv:1010.3561 · doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2011)110
Abstract
As shown by Cardy modular invariance of the partition function of a given unitary non-singular 2d CFT with left and right central charges c_L and c_R, implies that the density of states in a microcanonical ensemble, at excitations Delta and Delta-bar and in the saddle point approximation, is ρ_0(Δ,\barΔ;c_L, c_R)=c_L c_R \exp(2π\sqrt{{c_LΔ}/{6}})\exp(2π\sqrt{{c_R\barΔ}/{6}}). In this paper, we extend Cardy's analysis and show that in the saddle point approximation and up to contributions which are exponentially suppressed compared to the leading Cardy's result, the density of states takes the form ρ(Δ,\barΔ; c_L,c_R)= f(c_LΔ) f(c_R\barΔ)ρ_0(Δ,\barΔ; c_L, c_R), for a function f(x) which we specify. In particular, we show that (i) ρ(Δ,\barΔ; c_L, c_R) is the product of contributions of left and right movers and hence, to this approximation, the partition function of any modular invariant, non-singular unitary 2d CFT is holomorphically factorizable and (ii) ρ(Δ,\barΔ; c_L, c_R)/(c_Lc_R) is only a function of and . In addition, treating ρ(Δ,\barΔ; c_L, c_R) as the density of states of a microcanonical ensemble, we compute the entropy of the system in the canonical counterpart and show that the function f(x) is such that the canonical entropy, up to exponentially suppressed contributions, is simply given by the Cardy's result \lnρ_0(Δ,\barΔ; c_L, c_R).
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