The Boulware State and the Generalised Second Law of Thermodynamics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
We show that the appropriate vacuum state for the interior of a box with reflecting walls being lowered adiabatically into a Schwarzschild black hole is the Boulware state. This is concordant with the results of Unruh and Wald, who used a different approach to obtain the stress-energy inside the box. Some comments about an entropy bound for ordinary matter, as first conjectured by Bekenstein, are presented.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9402030,
title = {The Boulware State and the Generalised Second Law of Thermodynamics},
author = {Warren G. Anderson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9402030},
year = {2009}
}
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12 pages, RevTeX,Alberta-Thy-3-94