{
  "id": "1008.0946",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2010-08-05T11:21:56.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-06-13T07:59:58.000Z",
  "title": "Black Hole Entropy: From Shannon to Bekenstein",
  "authors": [
    "Subir Ghosh"
  ],
  "comment": "9 pages Latex, Comments are welcome; Thoroughly revised version, reference and acknowledgements sections enlarged, numerical error in final result corrected, no major changes, to appear in IJTP",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "gr-qc",
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "In this note we have applied directly the Shannon formula for information theory entropy to derive the Black Hole (Bekenstein-Hawking) entropy. Our analysis is semi-classical in nature since we use the (recently proposed [8]) quantum mechanical near horizon mode functions to compute the tunneling probability that goes in to the Shannon formula, following the general idea of [5]. Our framework conforms to the information theoretic origin of Black Hole entropy, as originally proposed by Bekenstein.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2011-06-13T07:59:58.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "black hole entropy",
      "bekenstein",
      "shannon formula",
      "horizon mode functions",
      "information theory entropy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1007/s10773-011-0859-y",
      "journal": "International Journal of Theoretical Physics",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Nov",
      "volume": 50,
      "number": 11,
      "pages": 3515
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 864574,
      "adsabs": "2011IJTP...50.3515G"
    }
  }
}