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Quantum energy inequalities in two dimensions

Christopher J. Fewster

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 2004

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Abstract

Quantumenergy inequalities (QEIs) were established by Flanagan for the massless scalarfield on two-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes globally conformal to Minkowskispace. We extend his result to all two-dimensional globally hyperbolic Lorentzianspacetimes and use it to show that flat spacetime QEIs give a good approximationto the curved spacetime results on sampling time scales short in comparisonwith natural geometric scales. This is relevant to the application of QEIsto constrain exotic spacetime metrics.

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