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Black Holes in Gravity with Conformal Anomaly and Logarithmic Term in Black Hole Entropy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a class of exact analytic and static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions in the semi-classical Einstein equations with Weyl anomaly. The solutions have two branches, one is asymptotically flat and the other asymptotically de Sitter. We study thermodynamic properties of the black hole solutions and find that there exists a logarithmic correction to the well-known Bekenstein-Hawking area entropy. The logarithmic term might come from non-local terms in the effective action of gravity theories. The appearance of the logarithmic term in the gravity side is quite important in the sense that with this term one is able to compare black hole entropy up to the subleading order, in the gravity side and in the microscopic statistical interpretation side.

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@article{arxiv.0911.4379,
  title  = {Black Holes in Gravity with Conformal Anomaly and Logarithmic Term in Black Hole Entropy},
  author = {Rong-Gen Cai and Li-Ming Cao and Nobuyoshi Ohta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4379},
  year   = {2010}
}

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Revtex, 10 pages. v2: minor changes and to appear in JHEP