Entropy in Dilatonic Black Hole Background
- 7 November 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 73 (19), 2521-2523
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.2521
Abstract
The entropy of a scalar field is calculated semiclassically in the background of a dilatonic black hole. The area and cutoff dependences are normal except in the extremal case, where the area is zero but the entropy nonzero.Keywords
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