Black hole entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity

2004/07/14 by Krzysztof A. Meissner · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/22/015

published as Class.Quant.Grav. 21 (2004) 5245-5252 · LaTeX, 10 pages

arxiv created 2004/07/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We calculate the black hole entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity as a function of the horizon area and provide the exact formula for the leading and sub-leading terms. By comparison with the Bekenstein-Hawking formula we uniquely fix the value of the 'quantum of area' in the theory.

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