Connections between reflected entropies and hyperbolic string vertices

TL;DR

This paper explores the relationship between reflected entropies in conformal field theory and hyperbolic string vertices in string field theory, suggesting a way to generate spacetime structure from these vertices.

Contribution

It establishes a novel connection between reflected entropies and hyperbolic string vertices, providing a new perspective on spacetime emergence in string theory.

Findings

Reflected surfaces share the same Riemann surfaces as hyperbolic string vertices.

Quantitative relations between reflected entropies and hyperbolic string vertices are derived.

The approach allows for a dynamical control of spacetime generation via the Batalin-Vilkovisky master equation.

Abstract

In this paper, we establish connections between reflected entropies of multipartite mixed states in CFT$_{2}$ and hyperbolic string vertices of closed string field theory (CSFT). We show that the reflected surfaces, which are bulk duals of the reflected entropies, share the same Riemann surfaces with the hyperbolic string vertices. This observation enables us to build quantitative relations between the reflected entropies and hyperbolic string vertices. We illustrate the connections with several examples. Consequently, we propose that spacetime structure could be directly generated from the hyperbolic string vertices. The advantage of the hyperbolic string vertices approach is that we have a dynamical equation, the Batalin-Vilkoviski master equation, to control the generating process.