Thermal Fields, Entropy, and Black Holes

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1998-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802010v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 15 (1998) 2041-2074

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

44 pages, LaTeX file

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/15/8/001

In this review we describe statistical mechanics of quantum systems in the presence of a Killing horizon and compare statistical-mechanical and one-loop contributions to black hole entropy. Studying these questions was motivated by attempts to explain the entropy of black holes as a statistical-mechanical entropy of quantum fields propagating near the black hole horizon. We provide an introduction to this field of research and review its results. In particular, we discuss the relation between the statistical-mechanical entropy of quantum fields and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in the standard scheme with renormalization of gravitational coupling constants and in the theories of induced gravity.

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