How to interpret black hole entropy?
| dc.creator | Makela, J. | |
| dc.creator | Repo, P. | |
| dc.date | 1998-12-21 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:32:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:32:51Z | |
| dc.description | We consider a possibility that the entropy of a Schwarzschild black hole has two different interpretations: The black hole entropy can be understood either as an outcome of a huge degeneracy in the mass eigenstates of the hole, or as a consequence of the fact that the interior region of black hole spacetime is separated from the exterior region by a horizon. In the latter case, no degeneracy in the mass eigenstates needs to be assumed. Our investigation is based on calculations performed with Lorentzian partition functions obtained for a whole maximally extended Schwarzschild spacetime, and for its right-hand-side exterior region. To check the correctness of our analysis we reproduce, in the leading order approximation, the Bekenstein--Hawking entropy of the Schwarzschild black hole. | |
| dc.description | 17 pages, no figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812075 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812075 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/36388 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | How to interpret black hole entropy? | |
| dc.type | text |