Quantum ergosphere and brick wall entropy
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2019-09-04 v1
Abstract
We revisit the "brick wall" model for black hole entropy taking into account back-reaction effects on the horizon structure. We do so by adopting an evaporating metric in the quasi-static approximation in which departures from the standard Schwarzschild metric are governed by a small luminosity factor. One of the effects of the back-reaction is to create an ergosphere-like region which naturally tames the usual divergence in the calculation of the partition function of the field. The black hole luminosity sets the width of such "quantum ergosphere". We find a finite horizon contribution to the entropy which, for the luminosity associated to the Hawking flux, agrees remarkably well with the Bekenstein-Hawking relation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.09599,
title = {Quantum ergosphere and brick wall entropy},
author = {Michele Arzano and Lennart Brocki and Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman and Marco Letizia and Josua Unger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.09599},
year = {2019}
}
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