Why the Entropy of a Black Hole is <span class="aps-inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="italic">A</mi><mo>/</mo><mn>4</mn><mn></mn></math></span>

Valeri P. Frolov

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.3319

Why the Entropy of a Black Hole is $A / 4$

Valeri P. Frolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3319 – Published 24 April 1995

Abstract

The paper analyzes the relation between Bekenstein-Hawking entropy $S^{BH}$ of a black hole and the statistical-mechanical entropy $S^{SM}$ defined by counting its internal degrees of freedom. The mechanism explaining universality of $S^{BH}$ is proposed.

Received 22 June 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.3319

Authors & Affiliations

Valeri P. Frolov

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology Program, Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2J1
and P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia