2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/35630Using a new regulator, we examine 't Hooft's approach for evaluating black hole entropy through a statistical-mechanical counting of states for a scalar field propagating outside the event horizon. We find that this calculation yields precisely the one-loop renormalization of the standard Bekenstein-Hawking formula, $S={\Cal A}/(4G)$. Thus our result provides evidence confirming a suggestion by Susskind and Uglum regarding black hole entropy.5 pages, uses AmS-TeX 2.1 with fic.sty included as a uufile. Based on a talk presented at the 6th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic AstrophysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyHigh Energy Physics - Theorytext