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Entropy for extremal Reissner- Nordstr\o m black holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We reinterpret recent work on extremal Reissner- Nordstr\o m black holes to argue that the mass is a measure of the gravitational entropy. We also find that the entropy of scalar fields in this background has a stronger divergence than usual.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9411128,
  title  = {Entropy for extremal Reissner- Nordstr\o m black holes},
  author = {Amit Ghosh and P. Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9411128},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, latex