On coupling NEC-violating matter to gravity

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 cou...

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Main Authors: Saugata Chatterjee, Maulik Parikh, Jan Pieter van der Schaar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315001835