Black hole entropy: inside or out?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
A trialogue. Ted, Don, and Carlo consider the nature of black hole entropy. Ted and Carlo support the idea that this entropy measures in some sense ``the number of black hole microstates that can communicate with the outside world.'' Don is critical of this approach, and discussion ensues, focusing on the question of whether the first law of black hole thermodynamics can be understood from a statistical mechanics point of view.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0501103,
title = {Black hole entropy: inside or out?},
author = {Ted Jacobson and Donald Marolf and Carlo Rovelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0501103},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
42 pages, contribution to proceedings of Peyresq 9