1995/08/02 by Rafael D. Sorkin
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc #hep-th
published as in Proceedings of the Conference on Heat Kernel Techniques and Quantum Gravity, held Winnipeg, Canada, August, 1994 (Discourses in Mathematics and its Applications, \#4) edited by S.A. Fulling, pp. 387-407 (University of Texas Press, 1995) · 18 pages, plainTeX, 2 postscript figures (Figures for automatic inclusion are in a separate file which you should receive with the .tex file. For instructions on decoding and including them (or omitting them to avoid error messages if your system can't handle them) see the box at the beginning of the tex file for this paper.)
We treat two aspects of the physics of stationary black holes. First we prove that the proportionality, d(energy) ~ d(area) for arbitrary perturbations (``extended first law''), follows directly from an extremality theorem drawn from earlier work. Second we consider quantum fluctuations in the shape of the horizon, concluding heuristically that they exhibit a fractal character, with order lambda fluctuations occurring on all scales lambda below M1/3 in natural units.