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Misner String Entropy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

I show that gravitational entropy can be ascribed to spacetimes containing Misner strings (the gravitational analogues of Dirac strings), even in the absence of any other event horizon (or bolt) structures. This result follows from an extension of proposals for evaluating the stress-energy of a gravitational system which are motivated by the AdS/CFT correspondence.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9903229,
  title  = {Misner String Entropy},
  author = {R. B. Mann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9903229},
  year   = {2009}
}

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revtex, 5 pages, references added, typo corrected