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Information--Theoretic Black Hole Entropy II: Infrared Gravity and Charged/Rotating Extensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-08-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate gravitational and Kerr-Newman extensions of an information-theoretic black-hole entropy that satisfies the Nernst formulation of the third law of thermodynamics. The entropy is identified with the Kullback-Leibler divergence between a mass-dependent Bernoulli ensemble and an unbiased reference ensemble, and therefore measures relative information rather than the logarithm of the number of black-hole microstates. We show perturbatively that its temperature and entropy can be reproduced by an infrared deformation of General Relativity. To linear order in the deformation couplings, the surface-gravity temperature and the Wald entropy agree with the information-theoretic results. In an explicit realization, the matching generates a positive effective cosmological term whose smallness is related to the large microscopic parameter NN. We also propose an extension to Kerr-Newman black holes based on the irreducible mass. This construction preserves the connection with the horizon area and the semiclassical limit, while distinguishing geometrical extremality from the universal statistical-freezing endpoint, which is independent of angular momentum and charge.

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@article{arxiv.2608.05801,
  title  = {Information--Theoretic Black Hole Entropy II: Infrared Gravity and Charged/Rotating Extensions},
  author = {Alex Kehagias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.05801},
  year   = {2026}
}

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22pages