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Chinese Physics, 2002, Vol. 11(1): 87-90    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/11/1/318
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Entropy and topology of the Kerr-de Sitter black hole

Chen Song-Bai (陈松柏), Jing Ji-Liang (荆继良)
Institute of Physics and Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Abstract  By using the path integral method of Gibbons and Hawking, the entropy of the Kerr-de Sitter black hole is investigated under the microcanonical ensemble. We find that the entropy is one eighth the sum of the products of the Euler number of its cosmological horizon and event horizon with their respective areas. It is shown that the origin of the entropy of the black hole is related to the topology of its instanton.
Keywords:  entropy of black hole      constrained gravitational instanton      Euler number  
Received:  19 June 2001      Revised:  17 August 2001      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  04.70.Dy (Quantum aspects of black holes, evaporation, thermodynamics)  
  97.60.Lf (Black holes)  
  95.30.Sf (Relativity and gravitation)  
  04.20.Fy (Canonical formalism, Lagrangians, and variational principles)  
  05.70.Ce (Thermodynamic functions and equations of state)  
  98.80.Jk (Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19975018).

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Chen Song-Bai (陈松柏), Jing Ji-Liang (荆继良) Entropy and topology of the Kerr-de Sitter black hole 2002 Chinese Physics 11 87

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