Quantization of Horizon Entropy and the Thermodynamics of Spacetime



Título del documento: Quantization of Horizon Entropy and the Thermodynamics of Spacetime
Revista: Brazilian journal of physics
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000376110
ISSN: 0103-9733
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Sao Paulo. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Jun
Volumen: 44
Número: 2-3
Paginación: 291-304
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, analítico
Resumen en inglés This is a review of my work published in the papers of Skakala (JHEP 1201:144, 2012; JHEP 1206:094, 2012) and Chirenti et al. (Phys. Rev. D 86:124008, 2012; Phys. Rev. D 87:044034, 2013). It offers a more detailed discussion of the results than the accounts in those papers, and it links my results to some conclusions recently reached by other authors. It also offers some new arguments supporting the conclusions in the cited articles. The fundamental idea of this work is that the semiclassical quantization of the black hole entropy, as suggested by Bekenstein (Phys. Rev. D 7:2333–2346, 1973), holds (at least) generically for the spacetime horizons. We support this conclusion by two separate arguments: (1) we generalize Bekenstein’s lower bound on the horizon area transition to a much wider class of horizons than only the black-hole horizon, and (2) we obtain the same entropy spectra via the asymptotic quasi-normal frequencies of some particular spherically symmetric multi-horizon spacetimes (in the way proposed by Maggiore (Phys. Rev. Lett. 100:141301, 2008)). The main result of this paper supports the conclusions derived by Kothawalla et al. (Phys. Rev. D 78:104018, 2008) and Kwon and Nam (Class. Quant. Grav. 28:035007, 2011), on the basis of different arguments
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Física de partículas y campos cuánticos,
Termodinámica,
Entropía,
Agujeros negros
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Particle physics and quantum fields,
Thermodynamics,
Entropy,
Black holes
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