# Conformal collider bounds The conformal collider bounds, aka Hofman-Maldacena bounds, can be thought of as [[0417 Averaged null energy condition|ANEC]] applied to a special class of states. ## Ref - original - [[2008#Hofman, Maldacena]] - proof - [[2016#Hartman, Jain, Kundu]] - [[2016#Hofman, Li, Meltzer, Poland, Rejon-Barrera]] - in [[0010 Celestial holography|CCFT]] - [[2022#Hu, Pasterski (Nov)]]