Large entropy production inside black holes: a simple model

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2010)093zbMATH Open1290.83046arXiv1006.4195OpenAlexW3105857751MaRDI QIDQ2016935FDOQ2016935

Authors: Gavin Polhemus, Andrew J. Hamilton 

Publication date: 24 June 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Particles dropped into a rotating black hole can collide near the inner horizon with enormous energies. The entropy produced by these collisions can be several times larger than the increase in the horizon entropy due to the addition of the particles. In this paper entropy is produced by releasing large numbers of neutrons near the outer horizon of a rotating black hole such that they collide near the inner horizon at energies similar to those achieved at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The increase in horizon entropy is approximately 80 per dropped neutron pair, while the entropy produced in the collisions is 160 per neutron pair. The collision entropy is produced inside the horizon, so this excess entropy production does not violate Bousso's bound limiting the entropy that can go through the black hole's horizon. The generalized laws of black hole thermodynamics are obeyed. No individual observer inside the black hole sees a violation of the second law of thermodynamics

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4195

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesblack holes in string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Black holes (83C57)

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