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Phys. Rev. D 51, 4315–4318 (1995)

Action and entropy of extreme and nonextreme black holes

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Claudio Teitelboim
Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago, Casilla 16443, Santiago 9, Chile
Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

See Also: Erratum

Received 12 October 1994; published in the issue dated 15 April 1995

The Hamiltonian actions for extreme and nonextreme black holes are compared and contrasted and a simple derivation of the lack of entropy of extreme black holes is given. In the nonextreme case the wave function of the black hole depends on horizon degrees of freedom which give rise to the entropy. Those additional degrees of freedom are absent in the extreme case.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.51.4315
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.51.4315
PACS:
04.70.Dy, 04.20.Jb, 04.50.+h, 97.60.Lf

See Also

Erratum: Claudio Teitelboim, Erratum: Action and entropy of extreme and nonextreme black holes, Phys. Rev. D 52, 6201 (1995).