1995/07/19 by Jean-Guy Demers, Demers, Jean-Guy, Rene Lafrance +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9507042
5 pages, uses AmS-TeX 2.1 with fic.sty included as a uufile. Based on a talk presented at the 6th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
arxiv created 1995/07/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Using a new regulator, we examine 't Hooft's approach for evaluating black hole entropy through a statistical-mechanical counting of states for a scalar field propagating outside the event horizon. We find that this calculation yields precisely the one-loop renormalization of the standard Bekenstein-Hawking formula, S=\Cal A/(4G). Thus our result provides evidence confirming a suggestion by Susskind and Uglum regarding black hole entropy.