The Return of the Singularities: Applications of the Smeared Null Energy Condition

The classic singularity theorems of General Relativity rely on energy conditions that can be violated in semiclassical gravity. Here, we provide motivation for an energy condition obeyed by semiclassical gravity: the smeared null energy condition (SNEC), a proposed bound on the weighted average o...

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Main Author: Ben Freivogel, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Dimitrios Krommydas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2022-07-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.13.1.001