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Entropy from the foam

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A simple model of spacetime foam, made by N wormholes in a semiclassical approximation, is taken under examination. We show that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is here ``quantized'' in agreement with the heuristic calculation of Bekenstein.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9906074,
  title  = {Entropy from the foam},
  author = {Remo Garattini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9906074},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Revtex 3.0, 15 pages, accepted in Phys.Lett. B