Thermodynamics of Kerr black hole: Tsallis-Cirto composition law and entropy quantization
Abstract
The processes of splitting and merging of black holes obey the composition law generated by the Tsallis-Cirto statistics. The same composition law expresses the full entropy of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole via the entropies of its outer and inner horizons. Here we apply this composition law to the thermodynamics of the Kerr black hole. As distinct from Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole, where the full entropy depends only on mass and does not depend on its charge , the entropy of Kerr black hole is the sum of contributions from its mass and angular momentum , i.e. . Here is the entropy of the Schwarzschild black hole. This demonstrates that when the Kerr black hole with absorbs or emits a massless particle with spin , its entropy changes by . We also considered the quantization of entropy suggested by the toy model, in which the black hole thermodynamics is represented by the ensemble of the Planck-scale black holes -- Planckons. The Tsallis-Cirto composition law is also extended to the thermodynamics of Kerr-Newman black hole.
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@article{arxiv.2509.00748,
title = {Thermodynamics of Kerr black hole: Tsallis-Cirto composition law and entropy quantization},
author = {G. E. Volovik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00748},
year = {2026}
}
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