Entropy in black hole pair production

Journal Article · Sat Jan 15 04:00:00 EST 1994 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.49.958· OSTI ID:5433730

Garfinkle, D ^[1]; Giddings, S B ^[2]; Strominger, A ^[3]

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1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States) Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309 (United States)
2. Department of Physics and Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)
3. Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)

Pair production of Reissner-Nordstroem black holes in a magnetic field can be described by a Euclidean instanton. It is shown that the instanton amplitude contains an explicit factor of [ital e][sup [ital A]/4], where [ital A] is the area of the event horizon. This is consistent with the hypothesis that [ital e][sup [ital A]/4] measures the number of black hole states.

• DOE Contract Number: FG03-91ER40618
• OSTI ID: 5433730
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States) Vol. 49:2; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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662110* -- General Theory of Particles & Fields-- Theory of Fields & Strings-- (1992-)
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
AMPLITUDES
BLACK HOLES
ENTROPY
INSTANTONS
INTERACTIONS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MECHANICS
PAIR PRODUCTION
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
QUASI PARTICLES
STATISTICAL MECHANICS
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
THERMODYNAMICS