Large fluctuations in the horizon area and what they can tell us about entropy and quantum gravity

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3835-3857

  Sorkin, Rafael D ^a,b   Sudarsky, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033249501     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/16/12/306     Document Type: Article

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