On coupling NEC-violating matter to gravity

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Publication date 11-05-2015
Journal Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume | Issue number 744
Pages (from-to) 34-37
Number of pages 4
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

We show that effective theories of matter that classically violate the null energy condition cannot be minimally coupled to Einstein gravity without being inconsistent with both string theory and black hole thermodynamics. We argue however that they could still be either non-minimally coupled or coupled to higher-curvature theories of gravity.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.03.020
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