Comment on ''Understanding the Area Proposal for Extremal Black Hole Entropy''

Abstract

A. Ghosh and P. Mitra made the proposal how to explain the area law for the entropy of extreme black holes in some model calculations. I argue that their approach implicitly operates with strongly singular geometries and says nothing about the contribution of regular metrics of extreme black holes into the partition function.

5 pages, ReVTeX, no figures. Expanded from the journal version to include response to Ghosh and Mitra Reply.

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