SLOW COMPLEXIFICATION

Slow complexification

The fact that AdS black hole interior geometries are time-dependent presents two challenges: first, to holographic duality (the boundary matter tends to equilibrate, often very quickly), and, second, to the idea that wormholes can be traversable (the wormhole geometry is dynamic, and the wormhole is apt to collapse too quickly for traversal to be p

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To decentralize or to continue on the centralization track: The cases of authoritarian regimes in Russia and Kazakhstan

Decisions on decentralization versus centralization come as a result of strategic choices made by politicians after weighing their costs and benefits.In authoritarian regimes, the highest-priority political task is that of restraining political competition and securing power in the hands of the incumbent.This task incentivizes politicians to restri

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