Black-hole entropy as causal links

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 279-296

  Dou, Djamel ^a   Sorkin, Rafael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EL OUED   (Algeria)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black holes; Causal sets; Discrete spacetime; Horizon entropy; Quantum gravity; Statistical mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037500386     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023781022519     Document Type: Article

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