Two roads to the null energy condition

DOI10.1142/S0218271815440307zbMATH Open1329.83192arXiv1512.03448OpenAlexW3106198092MaRDI QIDQ3464458FDOQ3464458

Maulik Parikh

Publication date: 27 January 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The null energy condition has sweeping consequences in general relativity. I argue here that it has been misunderstood as a property exclusively of matter, when in fact it arises only in a theory of both matter and gravity. I then derive an equivalent geometric formulation of the null energy condition from worldsheet string theory, where it arises beautifully as simply Einstein's equations in two dimensions. But further, I show that this condition also has a thermodynamic origin, following from a local version of the second law of thermodynamics, applied to gravitational entropy. Thus, far from being an incidental property of matter, the validity of the null energy condition hints at the deep dual origins of gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03448

zbMATH Keywords

black hole thermodynamicsgravitational aspects of string theoryenergy conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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