Statistical Mechanics and Black Hole Entropy
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
I review a new (and still tentative) approach to black hole thermodynamics that seeks to explain black hole entropy in terms of microscopic quantum gravitational boundary states induced on the black hole horizon.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9509024,
title = {Statistical Mechanics and Black Hole Entropy},
author = {S. Carlip},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9509024},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
10 pages, one figure in separate (uuencoded, compressed) tar file; factor of 2 corrected in eqn. (2.8)