Why the Entropy of a Black Hole isA/4
- 24 April 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 74 (17), 3319-3322
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.74.3319
Abstract
The paper analyzes the relation between Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a black hole and the statistical-mechanical entropy defined by counting its internal degrees of freedom. The mechanism explaining universality of is proposed.
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