stringy quantum gravity
Hep-th papers on Wednesday
Ioannis Papadimitriou constructs new domain-wall-like solutions that are asymptotic to the near-horizon geometry of M2-branes, namely "AdS4 x S…
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No-transmission principle, antiholographic LQG
I want to mention two recent conceptual, not too technical papers about the connection of holography to seemingly local theories. Today, Netta Engelh…
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How empty is the black hole interior?
This article is a continuation of the discussion of black hole firewalls . I've exchanged a dozen of e-mails with Joe Polchinski, the most well-k…
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Maldacena's talk at Strings 2016
I could download the slides from all the Strings 2016 talks just fine but the videos that were posted were unusable for me, due to the low bandwidth…
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Rotating black holes must be axisymmetric
Hollands, Ishibashi, and Wald offer their proof that rotating black holes, even the higher-dimensional ones, must be axisymmetric. In other words, t…
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Henry Tye: predictions of brane inflation
Henry Tye has written 29 pages full of cosmic predictions of string theory, especially those of the brane inflation, one of the natural realizations …
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Nonsupersymmetric black holes: entropy
For more than twenty years since the Bekenstein-Hawking calculations of black hole thermodynamics, people were unsuccessfully trying to find a micros…
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Hawking, Perry, Strominger on soft hair
Last June, Andy Strominger gave an interesting talk at Strings 2015 (and published papers) on memories, soft theorems, and asymptotic symmetries . Ne…
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Juan Maldacena and integrability
Talks by Juan Maldacena (IAS) and discussions with him are always special. He gave a very nice Duality Seminar about the planar limit of the "N=…
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Self-dual strings and M5-brane anomalies
Last night, David Berman gave a very nice talk about his recent work with Jeff Harvey, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0408198 Incidentally, most of the…
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Insiders and outsiders debate: fuzz or fire?
There is a KITP rapid response 10-day workshop on the black hole information puzzle in Santa Barbara: Complementarity, Fuzz, Or Fire? Red fire or fuz…
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Stephen Hawking - Master of the Universe
The U.K.'s Channel 4 started to broadcast their program about Hawking and physics: Put all five parts in a queue. I will embed the last, 5th part…
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Two preprints on information loss
I kind of agree with many of the statements but have not quite understood what we learn from these comments. This situation can of course change if s…
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Modern young black hole researchers need this quantum BH textbook by Lüst and pal
I think that all young people thinking as theoretical physicists who are interested in black holes should simply buy this new 2019 book Black Hole I…
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