Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis) ” Topological entanglement in string theory”

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Abstract: I will describe how topological entanglement of Chern-Simons theory is captured in a string theoretic realization. The Chern-Simons theory will be realized as the worldvolume dynamics of topological D-branes in the topological A-model string theory on a Calabi-Yau target. Via the open/closed topological string duality one can map this theory onto a pure closed topological A-model string. We will argue how to uplift the replica construction of Chern-Simons theory directly onto the closed string and show that the corresponding construction provides a meaningful deļ¬nition of reduced density matrices in topological string theory.