One-Loop Correction to the AdS/BCFT Partition Function in the Three Dimensional Pure Gravity

TL;DR

This paper computes the one-loop partition function of Euclidean AdS3 with end-of-the-world branes, revealing new ghost fluctuation terms and conditions under which the partition function becomes physically meaningful with positive state counts.

Contribution

It provides the first calculation of the one-loop correction to the AdS/BCFT partition function in three-dimensional pure gravity, including ghost fluctuation analysis.

Findings

One-loop partition function contains unexpected ghost fluctuation terms.

At zero chemical potential, the partition function resembles the original AdS/CFT result.

Ghost contributions diminish at zero chemical potential, ensuring positive state coefficients.

Abstract

We calculate the tree-level partition function of Euclidean BTZ black hole with the end of the world branes (ETW branes) for arbitrary tension and the one-loop partition function of Euclidean thermal $AdS_{3}$ in the presence of a tensionless ETW brane with the Neumann boundary condition. At the tree level, our results match with the previous ones in non-rotating cases, but at the one-loop level, our results contain unexpected terms, which contain the fluctuations of the ghost fields. However particularly in the case where the chemical potential is zero, we get a similar form as the original result in AdS/CFT case, but the exponent is slightly changed. In this case the ghost contribution looks going away and the partition function becomes physical in a sense that the coefficients of the expansion in powers of $q$ are positive, which means that the number of states at the level is always positive.