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Black hole entropy in string-generated gravity models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

The Euclidean action and entropy are computed in string-generated gravity models with quadratic curvatures, and used to argue that a negative mass extremal metric is the background for hyperbolic (k=-1) black hole spacetimes, k being the curvature constant of the event horizon. The entropy associated with a black hole is always positive for k=(0,1) family. The positivity of energy condition also ensures that the k=-1 (extremal) entropy is non-negative.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212092,
  title  = {Black hole entropy in string-generated gravity models},
  author = {Ishwaree P. Neupane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212092},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures, Physical Review D (Rapid Communication) version