String Theory Seminars

Horizon Thermodynamics and Local Energy Conditions(Tata Infosys lectures Series) (Lecture 2)

by Dr. Aaron Wall (IAS, Princeton))

Thursday, February 23, 2017 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at A 304
Description
Black holes, and other causal horizons e.g. de Sitter horizons in cosmology, obey laws of thermodynamics reminiscent of ordinary thermal systems. I will explain the definition and proof of the Generalized Second Law for causal horizons, and discuss its relationship to lower bounds on the stress-energy
tensor in classical and quantum field theories.

Lecture 2: What prevents negative energy from violating causality?
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