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Achronal averaged null energy condition for extremal horizons and (A)dS

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-25 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We prove the achronal averaged null energy condition for general quantum field theories in the near horizon geometry of spherical extremal black holes (i.e. AdS2×Sd2{{\rm AdS}_2\times S^{d-2}}), de Sitter and anti-de Sitter. The derivation follows from monotonicity of relative entropy after computing the modular hamiltonian of a null deformed region. For incomplete (but maximally extended) achronal null geodesics in AdS2×Sd2{\rm AdS}_2\times S^{d-2}, we prove the positivity of a different light-ray operator for arbitrary CFTs. This agrees with a constraint recently derived for the Lorentzian cylinder.

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@article{arxiv.2005.06476,
  title  = {Achronal averaged null energy condition for extremal horizons and (A)dS},
  author = {Felipe Rosso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06476},
  year   = {2020}
}

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47 pages, v2: updated to match published version, v3: references added