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Effectiveness of One-dimensional gas models for black holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A one-dimensional gas model has been constructed and shown to provide correct expressions for entropies for extremal and near-extremal BTZ black holes. Recently suggested boosting of black strings is used to compute the entropy for the Schwarzschild black hole also from this gas model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9801064,
  title  = {Effectiveness of One-dimensional gas models for black holes},
  author = {A. Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9801064},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, Latex, misprints corrected, reference added and minor changes made