Black Hole Entropy from Loop Quantum Gravity.
@article{Rovelli1996BlackHE, title={Black Hole Entropy from Loop Quantum Gravity.}, author={Rovelli}, journal={Physical review letters}, year={1996}, volume={77 16}, pages={ 3288-3291 } }
We study the idea that the statistical entropy governing thermal interactions of a black hole with its exterior is determined by the microstates of the hole having distinct effects on the exterior, and over which a hole in a given macroscopic configuration thermally fluctuates. We argue that for a (macroscopically) Schwarzschild black hole this ensemble is formed by horizons with the same area. We compute the number of states in this ensemble from first principles using nonperturbative loop… CONTINUE READING
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