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Black holes behave as thermodynamic systems, and a central task of any quantum theory of gravity is to explain these thermal properties. A statistical mechanical description of black hole entropy once seemed remote, but today we suffer an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

The exact formula derived by us earlier for the entropy of a four dimensional non-rotating black hole within the quantum geometry formulation of the event horizon in terms of boundary states of a three dimensional Chern-Simons theory, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Romesh K. Kaul , Parthasarathi Majumdar

While the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is the unique notion of entropy that makes classical black hole thermodynamics consistent, alternative entropy notions (R\'enyi, Tsallis, and generalized constructs) abound in the literature. We explore…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Valerio Faraoni

Black holes exist all over our Universe, possessing a very wide range of masses. At the moment, they serve as a probe to test general relativity at astrophysical scales, but in the future they may also give us information about gravity at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Tiago V. Fernandes

In the previous paper (arXiv:1804.09438) we found that the near horizon symmetry algebra of black holes is a subalgebra of the $W_{1+\infty}$ symmetry algebra of quantum Hall fluid in three dimensional spacetime. In this paper, we give a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Jingbo Wang

Regarding the volume as independent thermodynamic variable we point out that black hole horizons can hide positive heat capacity and specific heat. Such horizons are mechanically marginal, but thermally stable. In the absence of a canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-06 Tamás S. Biró , Viktor G. Czinner , Hideo Iguchi , Péter Ván

An investigation of black hole thermodynamics based on Tsallis statistical mechanics is explored through the study of the thermodynamics of a gas system located near the horizon of a black hole. In spite of the difficulty in exploring black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Phuwadon Chunaksorn , Ratchaphat Nakarachinda , Pitayuth Wongjun

We discuss some of the drawbacks of using event horizons to define black holes and suggest ways in which black holes can be described without event horizons, using trapping horizons. We show that these trapping horizons give rise to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-20 Alex B. Nielsen

We discuss the notion of string entanglement in string theory, which aims to study entanglement between worldsheet Hilbert spaces rather than entanglement between spacetime Hilbert spaces defined on a time slice in spacetime. Applying this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Soichiro Mori , Tadakatsu Sakai , Masaki Shigemori

We define and compute the leading sphere diagram contribution to the entropy of the BTZ black hole supported by Kalb-Ramond flux in bosonic string theory. In a winding condensate description, integrating exactly over the constant mode for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 Indranil Halder , Daniel L. Jafferis

The action for a class of three-dimensional dilaton-gravity theories with a cosmological constant can be recast in a Brans-Dicke type action, with its free $\omega$ parameter. These theories have static spherically symmetric black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gonçalo A. S. Dias , José P. S. Lemos

The Euclidean action and entropy are computed in string-generated gravity models with quadratic curvatures, and used to argue that a negative mass extremal metric is the background for hyperbolic (k=-1) black hole spacetimes, k being the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Ishwaree P. Neupane

Questions about black holes in quantum gravity generally presuppose the presence of a horizon. Recently Carlip has shown that enforcing an initial data surface to be a horizon leads to the correct form for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Mattingly

We study the entropy of Kerr-Sen black hole of heterotic string theory beyond semiclassical approximations. Applying the properties of exact differentials for three variables to the first law thermodynamics we derive the corrections to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Alexis Larranaga

This work presents a non-equilibrium framework for thermodynamicized black holes, inspired by the entropy-functional interpretation of emergent gravity and by residue-based methods in black hole thermodynamics. The main idea is to unify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Wen-Xiang Chen

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

Black hole entropy is studied for an exactly solvable model of two-dimensional gravity\cite{rst1}, using recently developed Noether charge techniques\cite{wald1}. This latter approach is extended to accomodate the non-local form of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Robert C. Myers

We derive the wave equation for a minimally coupled scalar field in the background of a general rotating five-dimensional black hole. It is written in a form that involves two types of thermodynamic variables, defined at the inner and outer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Mirjam Cvetic , Finn Larsen

By using the canonical Hamiltonian method, we obtain the mass and entropy of the black holes with general dynamical coupling constant $\lambda$ in Ho\v{r} ava-Lifshitz Gravity. Regardless of whether the horizon is sphere, plane or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Ming Cao , Nobuyoshi Ohta

We describe a thermal atmosphere around a black hole as vacuum excitations near to gravitational radius of a contracting thin black shell, i.e., in terms of properties of the physical vacuum of fields around a thin shell of mass $M$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 W. A. Rojas C , J. R. Arenas S