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Relative entropy and curved spacetimes

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JOURNAL OF GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 172, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2021.104416

Keywords

Local quantum field theory; Operator algebras; Modular theory; QFT on curved spacetimes; Quantum information; Entropy/energy inequalities

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  1. MIUR Excellence Department Project [CUP E83C18000100006]

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The study demonstrates the convexity of the entropy function associated with standard subspaces under a half-sided modular inclusion, as well as its application in quantum field theory.
Given any half-sided modular inclusion of standard subspaces, we show that the entropy function associated with the decreasing one-parameter family of translated standard subspaces is convex for any given (not necessarily smooth) vector in the underlying Hilbert space. In second quantisation, this infers the convexity of the vacuum relative entropy with respect to the translation parameter of the modular tunnel of von Neumann algebras. This result allows us to study the QNEC inequality for coherent states in a free Quantum Field Theory on a stationary curved spacetime, given a KMS state. To this end, we define wedge regions and appropriate (deformed) subregions. Examples are given by the Schwarzschild spacetime and null translated subregions with respect to the time translation Killing flow. More generally, we define wedge and strip regions on a globally hyperbolic spacetime, so to have non trivial modular inclusions of von Neumann algebras, and make our analysis in this context. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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