activity
20222026
most citedDiffeomorphism-invariant observables and dynamical frames in gravity: reconciling bulk locality with general covariance

15 citations · 41 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing hep-thShow all

6 papers · 1 filter

hep-th2025

Fighting non-locality with non-locality: microcausality and boundary conditions in QED

Philipp A. Hoehn, Josh Kirklin

In gauge theories, globally charged observables necessarily depend non-locally on the kinematical fields, with this dependence extending to the asymptotic boundary of spacetime. De…

hep-th2025

Relational entanglement entropies and quantum reference frames in gauge theories

Goncalo Araujo-Regado, Philipp A. Hoehn, Francesco Sartini

It has been shown that defining gravitational entanglement entropies relative to quantum reference frames (QRFs) intrinsically regularizes them. Here, we demonstrate that such rela…

hep-th2024★ 8 cited

Crossed products and quantum reference frames: on the observer-dependence of gravitational entropy

Julian De Vuyst, Stefan Eccles, Philipp A. Hoehn +1

A significant step towards a rigorous understanding of perturbative gravitational entropy was recently achieved by a series of works showing that a proper accounting of gauge invar…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Linearization (in)stabilities and crossed products

Julian De Vuyst, Stefan Eccles, Philipp A. Hoehn +1

Modular crossed product algebras have recently assumed an important role in perturbative quantum gravity as they lead to an intrinsic regularization of entanglement entropies by in…

hep-th2024★ 12 cited

Gravitational entropy is observer-dependent

Julian De Vuyst, Stefan Eccles, Philipp A. Hoehn +1

In quantum gravity, it has been argued that a proper accounting of the role played by an observer promotes the von Neumann algebra of observables in a given spacetime subregion fro…

hep-th2022★ 15 cited

Diffeomorphism-invariant observables and dynamical frames in gravity: reconciling bulk locality with general covariance

Christophe Goeller, Philipp A. Hoehn, Josh Kirklin

We describe a completely general and fully non-perturbative framework for constructing dynamical reference frames in generally covariant theories, and for understanding the gauge-i…