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Quantum Penrose Inequality

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The classical Penrose inequality specifies a lower bound on the total mass in terms of the area of certain trapped surfaces. This fails at the semiclassical level. We conjecture a quantum Penrose inequality: the mass at spatial infinity is lower bounded by a function of the generalized entropy of the light sheet of appropriate quantum trapped surfaces. This is the first relation between quantum information in quantum gravity, and the total energy.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.241301

Authors: Raphael Bousso, Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam, Marija Tomašević

Institutions: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,750