Energy Inequalities in Quantum Field Theory

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31 January 2005

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.math-ph/0501073

Abstract

Quantum fields are known to violate all the pointwise energy conditions of classical general relativity. We review the subject of quantum energy inequalities: lower bounds satisfied by weighted averages of the stress-energy tensor, which may be regarded as the vestiges of the classical energy conditions after quantisation. Contact is also made with thermodynamics and related issues in quantum mechanics, where such inequalities find analogues in sharp Gaarding inequalities.

Keywords

QUANTUM ENERGY INEQUALITIES
ENERGY CONDITIONS
CLASSICAL ENERGY
QUANTUM FIELDS
THEORY QUANTUM
FIELD THEORY

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