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Localization of Negative Energy and the Bekenstein Bound

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-28 v2

Abstract

A simple argument shows that negative energy cannot be isolated far away from positive energy in a conformal field theory and strongly constrains its possible dispersal. This is also required by consistency with the Bekenstein bound written in terms of the positivity of relative entropy. We prove a new form of the Bekenstein bound based on the monotonicity of the relative entropy, involving a "free" entropy enclosed in a region which is highly insensitive to space-time entanglement, and show that it further improves the negative energy localization bound.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1121,
  title  = {Localization of Negative Energy and the Bekenstein Bound},
  author = {David D. Blanco and Horacio Casini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1121},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure