Black Holes in Induced E8 Gravity: the Inherited Area Law, Three Uniquenesses of Ten Dimensions, and the Horizon's Ledger
The quarter in the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy is one of the most quoted numbers in physics, and one that no closed framework derives from first principles. This paper reports what happens to that number inside a framework whose gravity is induced rather than fundamental — manufactured at one loop by an underlying E8 fi...