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Quantum Information Bound on the Energy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-12-18 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

According to the classical Penrose inequality, the mass at spatial infinity is bounded from below by a function of the area of certain trapped surfaces. We exhibit quantum field theory states that violate this relation at the semiclassical level. We formulate a Quantum Penrose Inequality, by replacing the area with the generalized entropy of the lightsheet of an appropriate quantum trapped surface. We perform a number of nontrivial tests of our proposal, and we consider and rule out alternative formulations. We also discuss the relation to weak cosmic censorhip.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02001,
  title  = {Quantum Information Bound on the Energy},
  author = {Raphael Bousso and Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam and Marija Tomasevic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02001},
  year   = {2019}
}

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47 pages, 10 figures

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