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Black Hole Entropy in the O(N) Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider corrections to the entropy of a black hole from an O(N)O(N) invariant linear \s\s-model. We obtain the entropy from a 1/N1/N expansion of the partition function on a cone. The entropy arises from diagrams which are analogous to those introduced by Susskind and Uglum to explain black hole entropy in string theory. The interpretation of the \sm entropy depends on scale. At short distances, it has a state counting interpretation, as the entropy of entanglement of the NN fields \pa\pa. In the infrared, the effective theory has a single composite field \s\pa\pa\s \sim \pa \pa, and the state counting interpretation of the entropy is lost.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9506182,
  title  = {Black Hole Entropy in the O(N) Model},
  author = {D. Kabat and S. H. Shenker and M. J. Strassler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9506182},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

21 pages, uses harvmac and epsf. one additional reference

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