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The second law of thermodynamics, TCP and Einstein causality in anti-de Sitter spacetime
ISSN
0264-9381
Date Issued
2000
Author(s)
DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/17/2/102
Abstract
If the vacuum is passive for uniformly accelerated observers in anti-de Sitter spacetime (i.e. cannot be used by them to operate a perpetuum mobile), they will (a) register a universal value of the Hawking-Unruh temperature, (b) discover a TCP symmetry and (c) find that observables in complementary wedge-shaped regions are commensurable (local) in the vacuum state. These results are model independent and hold in any theory which is compatible with some weak notion of spacetime localization.