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Two Roads to the Null Energy Condition | | Maulik Parikh
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10 Dec 2015 | | Abstract: | The null energy condition has sweeping consequences in general relativity. I
argue here that it has been misunderstood as a property exclusively of matter,
when in fact it arises only in a theory of both matter and gravity. I then
derive an equivalent geometric formulation of the null energy condition from
worldsheet string theory, where it arises beautifully as simply Einstein’s
equations in two dimensions. But further, I show that this condition also has a
thermodynamic origin, following from a local version of the second law of
thermodynamics, applied to gravitational entropy. Thus, far from being an
incidental property of matter, the validity of the null energy condition hints
at the deep dual origins of gravity. | | Source: | arXiv, 1512.3448 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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