Electronic Resource
Springer
General relativity and gravitation
29 (1997), S. 1181-1194
ISSN:
1572-9532
Keywords:
BLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS
;
INDUCED GRAVITY
;
CASIMIR EFFECT
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract An analogy between the subtraction procedure in the Gibbons-Hawking Euclidean path integral approach to black hole thermodynamics and the Casimir effect is shown. Then a conjecture about a possible Casimir nature of the Gibbons-Hawking subtraction is made in the framework of Sakharov's induced gravity. In this framework it appears that the degrees of freedom involved in the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy can be naturally identified with zero-point modes of the matter fields. Some consequences of this view are sketched.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018895226085
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