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most citedM Theory As A Matrix Model: A Conjecture

2.8k citations · 12.6k across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

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48 papers

hep-th2026

A backreacted bouncing geodesic in 2D

Gauri Batra, Adam Levine, Stephen H. Shenker

In holography, analytically continued finite temperature correlation functions exhibit signatures of the black hole singularity. These take the form of singularities at cert…

hep-th2024★ 28 cited

BPS Chaos

Yiming Chen, Henry W. Lin, Stephen H. Shenker

Black holes are chaotic quantum systems that are expected to exhibit random matrix statistics in their finite energy spectrum. Lin, Maldacena, Rozenberg and Shan (LMRS) have propos…

hep-th2022★ 18 cited

Snowmass White Paper: Quantum Aspects of Black Holes and the Emergence of Spacetime

Raphael Bousso, Xi Dong, Netta Engelhardt +4

Black holes provide a window into the microscopic structure of spacetime in quantum gravity. Recently the quantum information contained in Hawking radiation has been calculated, ve…

hep-th2021★ 14 cited

Comments on wormholes and factorization

Phil Saad, Stephen Shenker, Shunyu Yao

In AdS/CFT partition functions of decoupled copies of the CFT factorize. In bulk computations of such quantities contributions from spacetime wormholes which link separate asymptot…

hep-th2021★ 43 cited

Wormholes without averaging

Phil Saad, Stephen H. Shenker, Douglas Stanford +1

After averaging over fermion couplings, SYK has a collective field description that sometimes has "wormhole" solutions. We study the fate of these wormholes when the couplings are…

hep-th2019

Replica wormholes and the black hole interior

Geoff Penington, Stephen H. Shenker, Douglas Stanford +1

Recent work has shown how to obtain the Page curve of an evaporating black hole from holographic computations of entanglement entropy. We show how these computations can be justifi…