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Phys. Rev. D 70, 121502(R) (2004) [4 pages]

Are there hyperentropic objects?

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Jacob D. Bekenstein*
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel, and Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

Received 10 October 2004; published 21 December 2004

By treating the Hawking radiation as a system in thermal equilibrium, Marolf and Sorkin have argued that hyperentropic objects (those violating the entropy bounds) would be emitted profusely with the radiation, thus opening a loophole in black hole based arguments for such entropy bounds. We demonstrate, on kinetic grounds, that hyperentropic objects could be formed only extremely slowly and so would be rare in the Hawking radiance, thus contributing negligibly to its entropy. The arguments based on the generalized second law of thermodynamics then rule out weakly self-gravitating hyperentropic objects and a class of strongly self-gravitating ones.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.121502
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.121502
PACS:
04.70.Dy, 04.70.–s, 04.70.Bw

*Electronic address: bekenste@vms.huji.ac.il

URL: http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~bekenste/