Abstract
We show that for a d-dimensional CFT in flat space, the Renyi entropy S\_q
across a spherical entangling surface has the following property: in an
expansion around q=1, the first correction to the entanglement entropy is
proportional to C\_T, the coefficient of the stress tensor vacuum two-point
function, with a fixed d-dependent coefficient. This is equivalent to a similar
statement about the free energy of CFTs living on S^1 x H^d-1 with inverse
temperature \beta=2q. In addition to furnishing a direct argument
applicable to all CFTs, we exhibit this result using a handful of gravity and
field theory computations. Knowledge of C\_T thus doubles as knowledge of Renyi
entropies in the neighborhood of q=1, which we use to establish new results in
3d vector models at large N.
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