2015/05/31 by Thomas G. Mertens, Henri Verschelde, Valentin I. Zakharov +1 · 28 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole thermodynamics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Entropy (arrow of time) #Hawking #Hawking radiation #Mathematical physics #Micro black hole #Physics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum mechanics #Scalar field #String theory #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep02(2016)041
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2016(2) (Springer Nature) · 19 pages, v2: added discussion on rotating black holes, matches published version
openalex publication_date 2016/02/01 · arxiv created 2016/02/14 · arxiv updated 2016/02/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss how long strings can arise at the stretched horizon and how they can account for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. We use the thermal scalar field theory to derive the asymptotic density of states and corresponding stress tensor of a microcanonical long string gas in Rindler space. We show that the equality of the Hagedorn and Hawking temperatures gives rise to the tree-level entropy of large black holes in accordance with the Bekenstein-Hawking-Wald formula.