TITLE:
Entropy of Causal Horizons
AUTHORS:
Eric M. Howard
KEYWORDS:
Black Hole Entropy, Causal Horizon, Black Hole Horizon, Black Hole Thermodynamics, Rindler Spacetime, Rindler Horizon, Quantum Gravity, Thermodynamics of Spacetime
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.4 No.12,
December
29,
2016
ABSTRACT: We analyze spacetimes with horizons and study the thermodynamic aspects of causal horizons, suggesting that the resemblance between gravitational and thermodynamic systems has a deeper quantum mechanical origin. We find that the observer dependence of such horizons is a direct consequence of associating a temperature and entropy to a spacetime. The geometrical picture of a horizon acting as a one-way membrane for information flow can be accepted as a natural interpretation of assigning a quantum field theory to a spacetime with boundary, ultimately leading to a close connection with thermodynamics.