Physics NotePublished
The paradigm of the area law and the structure of transversal-longitudinal lightfront degrees of freedom
Bert Schroer
2002
Publication details
- Authors
- Bert Schroer
- Type
- Physics Note
- Status
- Published
- Publication date
- 2002
- Description
- It is shown that the degrees of freedom on the lightfront align themselves in such a way that it is enough to know their properties in one strip in lightlike direction of unit transversal size; a transversal tensor product foliation accounts for a Bekenstein-like area law of additive quantities as the entropy. This behavior is independent of details of models and we propose it as the basic local quantum physics analog of the Bekenstein area law. The field-coordinatization independent algebraic formulation in terms of operator algebras is essential for understanding this rearrangement of degrees of freedom in the process of (algebraic) lightfront holography.
- Year
- 2002
- Number
- CBPF-NF-008/02
- Linked to a thesis
- No
- Linked to a grant
- No