The Weyl curvature conjecture and black hole entropy

DOI10.1088/0031-8949/77/05/055901MaRDI QIDQ3510962zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Øystein Rudjord, Sigbjørn Hervik, Øyvind Grøn

Publication date 3 July 2008

Published in Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0607064

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: The universe today, with structure such as stars, galaxies and black holes, seems to have evolved from a very homogeneous initial state. From this it appears as if the entropy of the universe is decreasing, in violation of the second law of thermodynamics. It has been suggested by Roger Penrose cite{grossmann:penrose:wcc} that this inconsistency can be solved if one assigns an entropy to the spacetime geometry. He also pointed out that the Weyl tensor has the properties one would expect to find in a description of a gravitational entropy. In this article we make an attempt to use this so-called Weyl curvature conjecture to describe the Hawking-Bekenstein entropy of black holes and the entropy of horizons due to a cosmological constant.

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