Theoretical analysis reveals pole singularities in conformal field theory partition functions at critical angular velocities, constraining entropy at large spin.
The thermal partition function, Z Z , of a CFT_d C F T d on Sᵈ⁻¹ S d − 1 is parameterized by the inverse temperature β β along with d/2 ⌊ d / 2 ⌋ angular velocities ω_i ω i . In this paper, we investigate the behaviour of this partition function when n n of the ω_i ω i are scaled to unity (the largest allowed value) at fixed values of the other ( d/2-n) ( ⌊ d / 2 ⌋ − n ) angular velocities. We argue that ln Z ln Z develops a simple pole in (1-ω_i) ( 1 − ω i ) for each ω_i ω i that is scaled to unity. The residue of this product of poles is a theory-dependent (so non-universal) function of β β and the fixed angular velocities. The inverse Laplace transformation of this partition function constrains the functional form of the field theory entropy as a function of charges in a limit in which angular momenta and the twist are scaled as follows. While n n special angular momenta J_1… J_n J 1 …
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