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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Action integrals and partition functions
There’s a marvelous — and by now quite well-known — paper (paywalled) by Gibbons and Hawking, in which they compute the entropy of black holes from what is essentially a purely geometrical argument. This relies on the fact that the … Continue reading
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