Temperature and entropy of a quantum black hole and conformal anomaly
- 15 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 51 (10) , R5352-R5355
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.51.r5352
Abstract
Attention is paid to the fact that the temperature of a classical black hole can be derived from the extremality condition of its free energy with respect to the variation of the mass of a hole. For a quantum Schwarzschild black hole evaporating massless particles the same condition is shown to result in the one-loop temperature T=(8πM[1+σ(8π ] and entropy S=4π-σlnM expressed in terms of the effective mass M of a hole together with its radiation and the integral of the conformal anomaly σ that depends on the field species. Thus, in the given case quantum corrections to T and S turn out to be completely provided by the anomaly. When it is absent (σ=0), which happens in a number of supersymmetric models, the one-loop expressions of T and S preserve the classical form. On the other hand, if the anomaly is negative (σ<0) an evaporating quantum hole seems to cease to heat up when its mass reaches the Planck scales.
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