A general proof of the quantum null energy condition

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2019)020zbMath1423.81149arXiv1706.09432WikidataQ127292385 ScholiaQ127292385MaRDI QIDQ2332184

Huajia Wang, Zuhair U. Khandker, Srivatsan Balakrishnan, Thomas Faulkner

Publication date: 1 November 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09432

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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