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A brief commentary on black hole entropy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

It is commonplace, in the literature, to find that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy has been endowed with having an explicit statistical interpretation. In the following essay, we discuss why such a viewpoint warrants a certain degree of caution.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0410086,
  title  = {A brief commentary on black hole entropy},
  author = {A. J. M. Medved},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0410086},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, Revtex; (v2) some mistaken terminology is corrected

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