Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: The Schwarzschild black hole can be viewed as a special case of the marginally bound Lema\^{\i}tre-Tolman-Bondi models of dust collapse which corresponds to a constant mass function. We presented a midisuperspace quantization of this model for an arbitrary mass function in a separate publication. In this article we show that our solution leads both to Bekenstein's area spectrum for black holes as well as to the black hole entropy, which, in this context, is naturally interpreted as the loss of information of the original matter distribution within the collapsing dust cloud.
Authors: Cenalo Vaz, Louis Witten
Institutions: University of Algarve, University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2038443229