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We employ the recently proposed formalism of the "horizon wave-function" to investigate the emergence of a horizon in models of black holes as Bose-Einstein condensates of gravitons. We start from the Klein-Gordon equation for a massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-29 Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giugno , Octavian Micu , Alessio Orlandi

In the Loop Quantum Gravity, black holes (or even more general Isolated Horizons) are described by a SU(2) Chern-Simons theory. There is an equivalent formulation of the horizon degrees of freedom in terms of a U(1) gauge theory which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-09 Romesh K. Kaul

We study scattering on the black hole horizon in a partial wave basis, with an impact parameter of the order of the Schwarzschild radius or less. This resembles the strong gravity regime where quantum gravitational effects appear. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-11 Nava Gaddam , Nico Groenenboom , Gerard 't Hooft

We investigate the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics, applying Barrow entropy for the horizon entropy. The former arises from the fact that the black-hole surface may be deformed due to quantum-gravitational effects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-16 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Spyros Basilakos

We study the reflectivity of quantum black hole (BH) horizons using detailed balance and fluctuation-dissipation theorem, finding a universal flux reflectivity given by the Boltzmann factor ${\mathcal R} = \exp\left(-{\hbar |\omega| \over k…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-15 Naritaka Oshita , Qingwen Wang , Niayesh Afshordi

Space-time singularities, viz. Big bang, Big crunch and black holes have been shown to follow from the singularity theorems of General relativity. Whether the entropy at such infinite proper-time objects can be other than zero has also been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Akinbo Ojo

We consider the thermodynamic properties of the constant curvature black hole solution recently found by Banados. We show that it is possible to compute the entropy and the quasilocal thermodynamics of the spacetime using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Jolien D. E. Creighton , Robert B. Mann

We provide general arguments regarding the connection between low-energy theories (gravity and quantum field theory) and a hypothetical fundamental theory of quantum gravity, under the assumptions of (i) validity of the holographic bound…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-15 Giovanni Acquaviva , Alfredo Iorio , Martin Scholtz

As is well known, near-horizon (equivalently high acceleration) observers in spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes have a particularly simple form of the quasi-local energy. Using this energy and indistinguishable area quanta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Ryley McGovern , Seth Major , Trevor Scheuing , Thomas Takis

General arguments based on curved space-time thermodynamics show that any extensive quantity, like the free energy or the entropy of thermal matter, always has a divergent boundary contribution in the presence of event horizons, and this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 J. L. F. Barbon

In an earlier short paper [Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ 120 (2018) 101301, arXiv:1702.04439], I argued that the horizon-preserving diffeomorphisms of a generic black hole are enhanced to a larger BMS${}_3$ symmetry, which is powerful enough to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 S. Carlip

Interior volume within the horizon of a black hole is a non-trivial concept which turns out to be very important to explain several issues in the context of quantum nature of black hole. Here we show that the entropy, contained by the {\it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-31 Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Saurav Samanta

Black hole thermodynamics suggests that, in order to describe the physics of distant observers, one may model a black hole as a standard quantum system with density of states set by the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy $S_\mathrm{BH}$. This idea…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Donald Marolf , Henry Maxfield

The event horizon is a source of irreversibility, analogous to statistical irreversibility. This is why for systems with an event horizon there is no difference between quantum and thermal fluctuations. Quantum processes of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 G. E. Volovik

The duality of gravitational dynamics (projected on a null hypersurface) and of fluid dynamics is investigated for the scalar tensor (ST) theory of gravity. The description of ST gravity, in both Einstein and Jordan frames, is analyzed from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-07 Krishnakanta Bhattacharya , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Douglas Singleton

Black hole entropy is identified with the counting of the dynamical degrees of freedom of trapped gravitational modes continually sourced by the Hawking-Unruh process. In the context of linear perturbations of Schwarzschild spacetime the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Seth Major , Daniel Rodriguez , Thomas Takis

Using a quantum tunneling derivation, we show the resilience of Hawking radiation in Lorentz violating gravity. In particular, we show that the standard derivation of the Hawking effect in relativistic quantum field theory can be extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-23 M. Schneider , F. Del Porro , M. Herrero-Valea , S. Liberati

In recent work on black hole entropy in non-perturbative quantum gravity, an action for the black hole sector of the phase space is introduced and (partially) quantized. We give a number of observations on this and related works. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Viqar Husain

The thermodynamics of black holes is shown to be directly induced by their near-horizon conformal invariance. This behavior is exhibited using a scalar field as a probe of the black hole gravitational background, for a general class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

The statistical mechanics of self-gravitating systems has not been well understood, and still remains an open question so far. In a previous study by Kang & He, we showed that the fluid approximation may give a clue to further investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-23 Dong-Biao Kang , Ping He