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The entropy of a hole in spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-06 v2

Abstract

We compute the gravitational entropy of 'spherical Rindler space', a time-dependent, spherically symmetric generalization of ordinary Rindler space, defined with reference to a family of observers traveling along non-parallel, accelerated trajectories. All these observers are causally disconnected from a spherical region H (a 'hole') located at the origin of Minkowski space. The entropy evaluates to S = A/4G, where A is the area of the spherical acceleration horizon, which coincides with the boundary of H. We propose that S is the entropy of entanglement between quantum gravitational degrees of freedom supporting the interior and the exterior of the sphere H.

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@article{arxiv.1305.0856,
  title  = {The entropy of a hole in spacetime},
  author = {Vijay Balasubramanian and Bartlomiej Czech and Borun D. Chowdhury and Jan de Boer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0856},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure; v2: published version including updated references