Black Hole Statistics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The quantum statistics of charged, extremal black holes is investigated beginning with the hypothesis that the quantum state is a functional on the space of closed three-geometries, with each black hole connected to an oppositely charged black hole through a spatial wormhole. From this starting point a simple argument is given that a collection of extremal black holes obeys neither Bose nor Fermi statistics. Rather they obey an exotic variety of particle statistics known as ``infinite statistics'' which resembles that of distinguishable particles and is realized by a -deformation of the quantum commutation relations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9307059,
title = {Black Hole Statistics},
author = {Andrew Strominger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9307059},
year = {2009}
}
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12 pages