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gr-qc2006★ 27 cited
The black hole horizon as a dynamical system
Gerard 't Hooft
Interactions between outgoing Hawking particles and ingoing matter are determined by gravitational forces and Standard Model interactions. In particular the gravitational interacti…
gr-qc2006★ 43 cited
Invariance under complex transformations, and its relevance to the cosmological constant problem
Gerard 't Hooft, Stefan Nobbenhuis
In this paper we study a new symmetry argument that results in a vacuum state with strictly vanishing vacuum energy. This argument exploits the well-known feature that de Sitter an…
quant-ph2006★ 102 cited
The mathematical basis for deterministic quantum mechanics
Gerard 't Hooft
If there exists a classical, i.e. deterministic theory underlying quantum mechanics, an explanation must be found of the fact that the Hamiltonian, which is defined to be the opera…