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How Are Black Holes Quantized?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Some approaches to quantization of the horizon area of black holes are discussed. The maximum entropy of a quantized surface is demonstrated to be proportional to the surface area in the classical limit. This result is valid for a rather general class of approaches to surface quantization. In the case of rotating black holes no satisfactory solution for the quantization problem has been found up to now.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0210108,
  title  = {How Are Black Holes Quantized?},
  author = {I. B. Khriplovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0210108},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Talk at XXXVI Winter School of Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sanct-Petersburg, Februrary 2002