Light sheets and Bekenstein's entropy bound

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Bousso, Raphael ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GEOMETRY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COVARIANT BOUND; GRAVITATING SYSTEM; LIGHT SHEETS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 0038059097     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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