Violating the quantum focusing conjecture and quantum covariant entropy bound in d 5 dimensions

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA80BAMaRDI QIDQ5369355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zicao Fu, Jason Koeller, Donald Marolf

Publication date 17 October 2017

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03161

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Hilbert-Gauss-Bonnet gravitygravitational entropyquantum fields in curved spacequantum focusing conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: We study the Quantum Focussing Conjecture (QFC) in curved spacetime. Noting that quantum corrections from integrating out massive fields generally induce a Gauss-Bonnet term, we study Einstein-Hilbert-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and show for $dge5$ spacetime dimensions that weakly-curved solutions can violate the associated QFC for either sign of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling. The nature of the violation shows that -- so long as the Gauss-Bonnet coupling is non-zero -- it will continue to arise for local effective actions containing arbitrary further higher curvature terms, and when gravity is coupled to generic $dge5$ theories of massive quantum fields. The argument also implies violations of a recently-conjectured form of the generalized covariant entropy bound. The possible validity of the QFC and covariant entropy bound in $dle4$ spacetime dimensions remains open.

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