Published September 15, 1989
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Journal article
Additivity of the entropies of black holes and matter in equilibrium
Creators
- 1. Institute of Field Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3255 (USA)
Description
We consider static spherical spacetimes in which a black hole is in equilibrium with surrounding matter. The grand canonical ensemble is defined by the geometry of the boundary of a region of spacetime and the chemical potential evaluated on this boundary. Additivity of the actions of gravity and matter and the principle of equivalence then jointly imply that the total entropy is the simple sum of the accepted black-hole entropy and the ordinary matter entropy. However, energy and thermodynamic potentials exhibit interaction terms and are not simply additive
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 2124-2127
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21021892
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BLACK HOLES; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENTROPY; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; MATTER; MINKOWSKI SPACE; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; POTENTIALS; SPACE-TIME; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
- Descriptors DEC
- FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SPACE