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Phys. Rev. D 71, 027502 (2005) [3 pages]

Log correction to the black hole area law

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Amit Ghosh* and P. Mitra
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Block AF, Bidhannagar, Calcutta 700 064 India

Received 15 July 2004; published 6 January 2005

Various approaches to black hole entropy yield the area law with logarithmic corrections, many involving a coefficient 1/2, and some involving 3/2. It is pointed out here that the standard quantum geometry formalism with spin one-half at each puncture is not consistent with 3/2.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.027502
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.027502
PACS:
04.70.Dy, 04.60.Pp

*Electronic address: amitg@theory.saha.ernet.in

Electronic address: mitra@theory.saha.ernet.in