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Generating functions for black hole entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1 Mathematical Physics Combinatorics math.MP

Abstract

We introduce, in a systematic way, a set of generating functions that solve all the different combinatorial problems that crop up in the study of black hole entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity. Specifically we give generating functions for: The different sources of degeneracy related to the spectrum of the area operator, the solutions to the projection constraint, and the black hole degeneracy spectrum. Our methods are capable of handling the different countings proposed and discussed in the literature. The generating functions presented here provide the appropriate starting point to extend the results already obtained for microscopic black holes to the macroscopic regime --in particular those concerning the area law and the appearance of an effectively equidistant area spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.0804.4784,
  title  = {Generating functions for black hole entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity},
  author = {J. Fernando Barbero G. and Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4784},
  year   = {2008}
}

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nine pages

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