The entropy of a hole in spacetime
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| Publication date | 2013 |
| Journal | The Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | Issue number | 2013 | 10 |
| Pages (from-to) | 220 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
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| 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.
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| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2013)220 |
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