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Huge entropy production inside black holes

Authors :
Wallace, Colin S.
Hamilton, Andrew J. S.
Polhemus, Gavin
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

We show that the entropy created by Ohmic dissipation inside an accreting charged black hole may exceed the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy by a large factor. If the black hole subsequently evaporates, radiating only the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, then the black hole appears to destroy entropy, violating the second law of thermodynamics. A companion paper discusses the implications of this startling result. Bousso's covariant entropy bound is not violated.<br />Comment: Version 2: Title, abstract, introduction, figure 2, and discussion completely rewritten. Body of text largely unchanged. Version 3: Paper has been split into two. This paper now confines itself to presenting the general relativistic model. A companion paper, arXiv:0903.2290, discusses the quantum gravity implications

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.0801.4415
Document Type :
Working Paper