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hep-th2002
Gravitational Thermodynamics of Schwarzschild-de Sitter Space
Claudio Teitelboim
The Euclidean Schwarzschild-de Sitter geometry may be considered as an extremum of two different action principles. If the thermodynamical parameters are held fixed at the cosmolog…
hep-th2001
Turning the Cosmological Constant into Black Holes
Andres Gomberoff, Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim
It is known that there is a quantum mechanical tunneling process which, through nucleation of a membrane, induces a transition between two de Sitter spaces, lowering the cosmologic…
hep-th1994
Topological Roots of Black Hole Entropy
C. Teitelboim
We review the insights into black hole entropy that arise from the formulation of gravitation theory in terms of dimensional continuation. The role of the horizon area and the defi…