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Black hole entropy as a consequence of excision

2019/01/07 by David Garfinkle, Garfinkle, David
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.01902

openalex publication_date 2019/01/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Black hole entropy is shown to be a consequence of restricting our description of physics to the exterior of black holes. This precludes the need for a statistical mechanical description of this entropy in terms of microstates.

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