Jacob Bekenstein and the Development of Black Hole Thermodynamics
History and Philosophy of Physics
2018-05-08 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
I give some personal reflections on Jacob Bekenstein's pioneering work on associating an entropy to a black hole proportional to its area and on the generalized second law of thermodynamics.
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@article{arxiv.1805.02302,
title = {Jacob Bekenstein and the Development of Black Hole Thermodynamics},
author = {Robert M. Wald},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02302},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages; contribution to memorial volume for Jacob Bekenstein