Comment on a universal upper bound on the entropy-to-energy ratio for bounded systems

Don N. Page
Phys. Rev. D 26, 947 – Published 15 August 1982
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Abstract

Some difficulties are noted with Bekenstein's arguments that a system with energy E and effective radius R has an entropy bound SSB2πERc. The inequality appears to be valid only for large SB. For that regime an upper bound which is generally stronger is proposed.

  • Received 17 June 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.26.947

©1982 American Physical Society

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Don N. Page

  • Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

Comments & Replies

Possible violations of the entropy-to-energy-ratio bound

S. D. Unwin
Phys. Rev. D 26, 944 (1982)

Specific entropy and the sign of the energy

Jacob D. Bekenstein
Phys. Rev. D 26, 950 (1982)

Bounds on the entropy

P. F. González-Díaz
Phys. Rev. D 27, 3042 (1983)

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Vol. 26, Iss. 4 — 15 August 1982

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