1999/07/27 by Shinji Mukohyama, Mukohyama, Shinji
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9907090
Latex, 5 pages; talk in the 8th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
arxiv created 1999/07/27 · openalex publication_date 1999/07/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
There have been many attempts to understand the statistical origin of black-hole entropy. Among them, entanglement entropy and the brick wall model are strong candidates. In this paper we show a relation between entanglement entropy and the brick wall model: the brick wall model seeks the maximal value of the entanglement entropy. In other words, the entanglement approach reduces to the brick wall model when we seek the maximal entanglement entropy .