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The Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy of Higher-Dimensional Rotating Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

A black hole can be regarded as a thermodynamic system described by a grand canonical ensemble. In this paper, we study the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of higher-dimensional rotating black holes using the Euclidean path-integral method of Gibbons and Hawking. We give a general proof demonstrating that ignoring quantum corrections, the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is equal to one-fourth of its horizon area for general higher-dimensional rotating black holes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512130,
  title  = {The Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy of Higher-Dimensional Rotating Black Holes},
  author = {Zheng Ze Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512130},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, Latex, v2: arxiv-id for the references supplemented, v3: accepted for publication by Progress of Theoretical Physics