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Topology from Cosmology
Vijay Balasubramanian, Per Berglund, Raul Jimenez +2
We show that cosmological observables can constrain the topology of the compact additional dimensions predicted by string theory. To do this, we develop a general strategy for rela…
Typicality versus thermality: An analytic distinction
Vijay Balasubramanian, Bartlomiej Czech, Veronika Hubeny +3
In systems with a large degeneracy of states such as black holes, one expects that the average value of probe correlation functions will be well approximated by the thermal ensembl…
A Thermodynamic Interpretation of Time for Rolling Tachyons
Vijay Balasubramanian, Niko Jokela, Esko Keski-Vakkuri +1
We show that the open string worldsheet description of brane decay (discussing a specific example of a rolling tachyon background) can be related to a sequence of points of thermod…
How To Count the States of Extremal Black Holes in N=8 Supergravity
Vijay Balasubramanian
N=8 supergravity has a rich spectrum of black holes charged under the 56 U(1) gauge fields of the theory. Duality predicts that the entropy of these black holes is related to the q…