The entropy of a hole in spacetime

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Authors
  • V. Balasubramanian
  • B.D. Chowdhury
  • B. Czech
  • J. de Boer
Publication date 2013
Journal The Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume | Issue number 2013 | 10
Pages (from-to) 220
Number of pages 12
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract
We compute the gravitational entropy of "spherical Rindler space", a timedependent, spherically symmetric generalization of ordinary Rindler space, defined with reference to a family of observers traveling along non-parallel, accelerated trajectories. All these observers are causally disconnected from a spherical region H (a "hole") located at the origin of Minkowski space. The entropy evaluates to S = A /4G, where A is the area of the spherical acceleration horizon, which coincides with the boundary of H. We propose that S is the entropy of entanglement between quantum gravitational degrees of freedom supporting the interior and the exterior of the sphere H.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2013)220
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