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Generalized black hole entropy in two dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-07-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a black hole is proportional to its horizon area, hence in D=2D=2 spacetime dimensions it is constant because the horizon degenerates into two points. This fact is consistent with Einstein's gravity becoming topological in two dimensions. In F(R)F(R) gravity, which is non-trivial even in D=2D=2, we find that the entropy is constant, as for Bekenstein-Hawking. As shown in EPL 139 (2022) no.6, 69001 (arXiv:2208.10146), two-dimensional F(R)F(R) gravity is equivalent to Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, in turn equivalent to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model where the entropy becomes constant in the large NN limit. Several recently proposed entropies are functions of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and become constant in D=2D=2, but in two-dimensional dilaton gravity entropies are not always constant. We study general dilaton gravity and obtain arbitrary static black hole solutions for which the non-constant entropies depend on the mass, horizon radius, or Hawking temperature, and constitute new proposals for a generalized entropy.

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@article{arxiv.2303.02663,
  title  = {Generalized black hole entropy in two dimensions},
  author = {Shin'ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov and Valerio Faraoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.02663},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, latex, to appear in Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phys

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