Black hole entropy, curved space and monsters

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2007.09.021zbMATH Open1246.83120arXiv0706.3239OpenAlexW1964360657MaRDI QIDQ446907FDOQ446907

Authors: Stephen D. H. Hsu, David Reeb 

Publication date: 8 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the microscopic origin of black hole entropy, in particular the gap between the maximum entropy of ordinary matter and that of black holes. Using curved space, we construct configurations with entropy greater than their area in Planck units. These configurations have pathological properties and we refer to them as monsters. When monsters are excluded we recover the entropy bound on ordinary matter $S<A^{3/4}$. This bound implies that essentially all of the microstates of a semiclassical black hole are associated with the growth of a slightly smaller black hole which absorbs some additional energy. Our results suggest that the area entropy of black holes is the logarithm of the number of distinct ways in which one can form the black hole from ordinary matter and smaller black holes, but only after the exclusion of monster states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3239

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zbMATH Keywords

black hole entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57)

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