Horizon spectroscopy in and beyond general relativity
arXiv:1311.4255 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.044019
Abstract
In this work we generalize the results for the entropy spectra typically derived for black holes in general relativity to a generic horizon within the spherically symmetric (asymptotically flat and non-flat) space-times of more general theories of gravity. We use all the standard --- Bekenstein's universal lower bound on the entropy transition, the highly damped quasi-normal modes and reduced phase-space quantization --- approaches to derive the spectra. In particular, the three approaches show that the Bekenstein-like spectra for the horizon entropy is a robust result. Our results confirm the suggestion made relatively recently by an independent fourth argument by Kothawala et al [1].
10 pages, v2: final version accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D, (v2 with respect to v1: one reference and two sentences added)
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