Solution Independent Analysis of Black Hole Entropy in Brick Wall Model

Abstract

Using the brick wall regularization of 't Hooft, the entropy of non-extreme and extreme black holes is investigated in a general static, spherically symmetric spacetime. We classify the singularity in the entropy by introducing a {\it new} index $\delta$ with respect to the brick wall cut-off $\epsilon$. The leading contribution to entropy for non-extreme case $(\delta \ne 0)$ is shown to satisfy the area law with quadratic divergence with respect to the invariant cut-off ${\epsilon }_{\mathrm{inv}}$ while the extreme case $(\delta =0)$ exhibits logarithmic divergence or constant value with respect to $\epsilon$. The general formula is applied to Reissner-Nordström, dilaton and brane-world black holes and we obtain consistent results.

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