Ten theses on black hole entropy

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2005.02.002zbMATH Open1222.83116arXivhep-th/0504037OpenAlexW2072256703MaRDI QIDQ640231FDOQ640231

Rafael D. Sorkin

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I present a viewpoint on black hole thermodynamics according to which the entropy: derives from horizon "degrees of freedom"; is finite because the deep structure of spacetime is discrete; is "objective" thanks to the distinguished coarse graining provided by the horizon; and obeys the second law of thermodynamics precisely because the effective dynamics of the exterior region is not unitary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504037

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityblack hole thermodynamicsgeneralized second lawhorizon entropyhistories quantum mechanicsspacetime discreteness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57)

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