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Phys. Rev. D 63, 044019 (2001) [4 pages]

New holographic entropy bound from quantum geometry

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Saurya Das *
Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300

Romesh K. Kaul † and Parthasarathi Majumdar ‡
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 600 113, India

Received 7 August 2000; published 29 January 2001

A new entropy bound, tighter than the standard holographic bound due to Bekenstein, is derived for space-times with nonrotating isolated horizons from the quantum geometry approach, in which the horizon is described by the boundary degrees of freedom of a three dimensional Chern-Simons theory.


©2001 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v63/e044019
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.044019
PACS: 04.70.Dy, 04.60.-m, 11.10.Kk

* Email address: das@gravity.phys.psu.edu
† Email address: kaul@imsc.ernet.in
‡ Email address: partha@imsc.ernet.in

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