172 citations · 222 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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hep-th2008★ 172 cited
Black Holes as Effective Geometries
Vijay Balasubramanian, Jan de Boer, Sheer El-Showk +1
Gravitational entropy arises in string theory via coarse graining over an underlying space of microstates. In this review we would like to address the question of how the classical…
hep-th2007★ 50 cited
Quantum geometry and gravitational entropy
Vijay Balasubramanian, Bartlomiej Czech, Donald Marolf +2
Most quantum states have wavefunctions that are widely spread over the accessible Hilbert space and hence do not have a good description in terms of a single classical geometry. In…