Surface Density of Spacetime Degrees of Freedom from Equipartition Law in theories of Gravity

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2010-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/1003.5665v2

Phys. Rev. D 81, 124040 (2010)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

v1: 20 pages; no figures. v2: Sec 4 added; 23 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.124040

I show that the principle of equipartition, applied to area elements of a surface which are in equilibrium at the local Davies-Unruh temperature, allows one to determine the surface number density of the microscopic spacetime degrees of freedom in any diffeomorphism invariant theory of gravity. The entropy associated with these degrees of freedom matches with the Wald entropy for the theory. This result also allows one to attribute an entropy density to the spacetime in a natural manner. The field equations of the theory can then be obtained by extremising this entropy. Moreover, when the microscopic degrees of freedom are in local thermal equilibrium, the spacetime entropy of a bulk region resides on its boundary.

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