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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…