Precision tests of bulk entanglement: AdS3 vectors (2511.13549v1)

Abstract: We consider single particle excitations of the massive Chern-Simons field of mass M in AdS3 and evaluate their contribution at the first sub-leading order in GN to the entanglement entropy across the Ryu-Takayanagi surface. Quantizing the Chern- Simons field in AdS3, we evaluate the corrections to the holographic entanglement entropy using the Faulkner-Lewkowycz-Maldacena formula. The massive Chern-Simons field also obeys the equations of motion of a massive vector in AdS3. The lowest energy single particle excitation of this field is dual to the primary operator of conformal dimensions M + 1 with spin one in the dual CFT, all other single particle excitations are dual to its global descendants. We compare the result for the entanglement entropy from the Faulkner-Lewkowycz-Maldacena formula to the single interval entanglement entropy in large charge holographic CFT obtained using the replica trick for the primary and its tower of holomorphic descendants. The two results agree precisely in the leading and sub-leading terms of the short interval expansion. On taking the massless limit the result coincides with the contribution of a U(1) current to the single interval entanglement entropy.