2010/08/31 by Subir Ghosh
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Black hole complementarity #Black hole information paradox #Black hole thermodynamics #Entropy (arrow of time) #Extremal black hole #Information theory #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #Rényi entropy #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #White hole #gr-qc #hep-th #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10773-011-0859-y
9 pages Latex, Comments are welcome; Thoroughly revised version, reference and acknowledgements sections enlarged, numerical error in final result corrected, no major changes, to appear in IJTP
arxiv created 2011/06/13 · openalex publication_date 2011/06/14 · arxiv updated 2015/05/19 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In this note we have applied directly the Shannon formula for information theory entropy to derive the Black Hole (Bekenstein-Hawking) entropy. Our analysis is semi-classical in nature since we use the (recently proposed [8]) quantum mechanical near horizon mode functions to compute the tunneling probability that goes in to the Shannon formula, following the general idea of [5]. Our framework conforms to the information theoretic origin of Black Hole entropy, as originally proposed by Bekenstein.