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Hartle-Hawking state is a maximum of entanglement entropy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is shown that the Hartle-Hawking state of a scalar field is a maximum of entanglement entropy in the space of pure quantum states satisfying the condition that backreaction is finite. In other words, the Hartle-Hawking state is a curved-space analogue of the EPR state, which is also a maximum of entanglement entropy.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9904005,
  title  = {Hartle-Hawking state is a maximum of entanglement entropy},
  author = {Shinji Mukohyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9904005},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex, 4 pages, Some comments are added on the "small backreaction condition"