Friday, March 30, 2012

1203.6542 (Mitchell Thomson et al.)

Black Hole Statistical Mechanics and The Angular Velocity Ensemble    [PDF]

Mitchell Thomson, Charles C. Dyer
An new ensemble - the angular velocity ensemble - is derived using Jaynes' method of maximising entropy subject to prior information constraints. The relevance of the ensemble to black holes is motivated by a discussion of external parameters in statistical mechanics and their absence from the Hamiltonian of general relativity. It is shown how this leads to difficulty in deriving entropy as a function of state and recovering the first law of thermodynamics from the microcanonical and canonical ensembles applied to black holes.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6542

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