Averaged-null-energy condition for electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime
- 15 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 46 (6) , 2726-2729
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.46.2726
Abstract
We show, on four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, that , the renormalized expectation value in a general quantum state of the stress-energy tensor for electromagnetism, satisfies the averaged-null-energy condition, i.e., that where this integral is along complete null geodesics with an affine parameter and tangent vector .
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