Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2012-02-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
16 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
We compute the canonical partition for quantum black holes in the approach of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). We argue that any quantum theory of gravity in which the horizon area is built of non-interacting constituents cannot yield qualitative corrections to the Bekenstein-Hawking (B-H) area law, but corrections to the area law can arise as a consequence additional constraints inducing interactions between the constituents. In LQG this is implemented by requiring spherical horizons. The canonical approach for LQG favours a logarithmic correction to the B-H law with a coefficient of -1/2, independently of the area spectrum. Our initial calculation of the partition function uses certain approximations that, we show, do not qualitatively affect the expression for the black hole entropy. We later discuss the quantitative corrections to these results when the simplifying approximations are relaxed and the full LQG spectrum is dealt with. We show how these corrections can be recovered to all orders in perturbation theory. However, the convergence properties of the perturbative series remains unknown.
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