4 papers
Thermal effective actions from conformal boundary conditions in gravity
Batoul Banihashemi, Edgar Shaghoulian, Sanjit Shashi
Recent work has studied the thermodynamics of gravity subjected to conformal boundary conditions, where the trace of the extrinsic curvature and the conformal class of metrics…
The enigmatic gravitational partition function
Batoul Banihashemi, Ted Jacobson
The saddle point approximation to formal quantum gravitational partition functions has yielded plausible computations of horizon entropy in various settings, but it stands on shaky…
Flat space gravity at finite cutoff
Batoul Banihashemi, Edgar Shaghoulian, Sanjit Shashi
We study the thermodynamics of Einstein gravity with vanishing cosmological constant subjected to conformal boundary conditions. Our focus is on comparing the series of subextensiv…
Gravitomagnetic tidal effects in gravitational waves from neutron star binaries
Batoul Banihashemi, Justin Vines
Gravitational waves emitted by coalescing binary systems containing neutron stars (or other compact objects) carry signatures of the stars' internal equation of state, notably, thr…