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20152025
most citedThe Temperature/Entropy Connection for Horizons, Massless Particle Scattering, and the Origin of Locality

3 citations · 4 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

JT de Sitter Gravity as a Model of Coleman-de Luccia Tunneling

Sidan A, Tom Banks

We interpret the Euclidean solution of JT de Sitter gravity as the Coleman-de Luccia instanton for the decay of the low-entropy horizon of its static patch solution into either a B…

hep-th2025

The Hydrodynamic Approach to Quantum Gravity

T. Banks

Several papers from the mid to late 1990s suggest that Einstein's equations should be thought of as the hydrodynamic equations of a special class of quantum systems. A classical so…

hep-th2025

Note on 't Hooft's Shock Wave Commutators From Near Horizon Conformal Field Theory

T. Banks

We construct a finite model of 't Hooft's shock wave commutation relations from the ansatz\cite{Carlip}\cite{Solodukhin}\cite{BZ} that the quantum degrees of freedom in a causal di…

hep-th2025

The holographic space-time model of inflation and its predictions for the CMB primordial spectra

Sidan A, Tom Banks

In 1998 Carlip and Solodukhin independently conjectured the equality between fluctuations in the modular Hamiltonian of black holes and its expectation value. Banks and Zurek's 202…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Schwinger Dyson Summation of Perturbation Expansions

Tom Banks

We introduce a hierarchical system of approximations for summing both conventional perturbation theory and large N vector expansions of models in quantum field theory and condensed…

hep-th2024

Dumbell Fermions and Fermi-Pauli Duality

Tom Banks

We use the Kantor-Susskind\cite{kantsuss} model of fermions as "dumbbells" connecting points on a cubic lattice to points on its dual, to define a duality between local fermionic m…

hep-th2023

My Personal History With the Quantum Theory of de Sitter Space

Tom Banks

The purpose of this brief article is to clarify certain distortions of the history of ideas about the quantum theory of de Sitter space that have appeared in recent literature.

hep-th2015★ 3 cited

The Temperature/Entropy Connection for Horizons, Massless Particle Scattering, and the Origin of Locality

T. Banks

I explain, in non-technical terms, the basic ideas of Holographic Space-time (HST) models of quantum gravity (QG). The key feature is that the degrees of freedom (DOF) of QG, local…