The Boulware state and the generalized second law of thermodynamics

Anderson, Warren G.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.50.4786

The Boulware state and the generalized second law of thermodynamics

Warren G. Anderson
(
- Alberta U.
)

Feb 18, 1994

12 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 50 (1994) 4786-4790

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gr-qc/9402030 [gr-qc]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.50.4786

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ALBERTA-THY-3-94

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We show that the appropriate vacuum state for the interior of a box with reflecting walls being lowered adiabatically into a Schwarzschild black hole is the Boulware state. This is concordant with the results of Unruh and Wald, who used a different approach to obtain the stress-energy inside the box. Some comments about an entropy bound for ordinary matter, as first conjectured by Bekenstein, are presented.

black hole: Schwarzschild
vacuum state
entropy
thermodynamics
energy: density
dimension
boundary condition
tensor: energy-momentum
radiation: acceleration

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