Avirup Ghosh

Counting black hole microscopic states in loop quantum gravity

Counting of microscopic states of black holes is performed within the framework of loop quantum gravity. This is the first calculation of the pure horizon states using statistical methods, which reveals the possibility of additional states missed in the earlier calculations, leading to an increase of entropy. Also for the first time a microcanonical temperature is introduced within the framework.

Inhomogeneous Jacobi equation for minimal surfaces and perturbative change in holographic entanglement entropy

The change in Holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) for small fluctuations about pure anti De Sitter (AdS) is obtained by a perturbative expansion of the area functional in terms of the change in the bulk metric and the embedded extremal surface. However, it is known that change in the embedding appears in second order or higher. It was shown that these changes in the embedding can be calculated in the

Fermion scattering off dilatonic black holes.

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Quasilocal rotating conformal Killing horizons

dimensional case by solving a generalized geodesic deviation equation. We generalize this result to arbitrary dimensions by deriving an inhomogeneous form of the Jacobi equation for minimal surfaces. The solutions of this equation map a minimal surface in a given space time to a minimal surface in a space time which is a perturbation over the initial space time. Using this we perturbatively calculate the changes in HEE upto second order for boosted black brane like perturbations over

Quasilocal conformal Killing horizons: Classical phase space and the first law

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Massless charged particles: Cosmic censorship, and the third law of black hole mechanics

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Quantum correction to the thermodynamical entropy of a black hole

The scattering of massless fermions off magnetically charged dilatonic black holes is reconsidered and a violation of unitarity is found. Even for a single species of fermion it is possible for a particle to disappear into the black hole with its information content.

Temperatures of extremal black holes

The formulation of quasi-local conformal Killling horizons(CKH) is extended to include rotation. This necessitates that the horizon be foliated by 2-spheres which may be distorted. Matter degrees of freedom which fall through the horizon is taken to be a real scalar field. We show that these rotating CKHs also admit a first law in differential form.

Generalized geodesic deviation equations and an entanglement first law for rotating BTZ black holes

In realistic situations, black hole spacetimes do not admit a global timelike Killing vector field. However, it is possible to describe the horizon in a quasilocal setting by introducing the notion of a quasilocal boundary with certain properties which mimic the properties of a black hole horizon. Isolated horzons and Killing horizons are examples of such kind. In this paper, we construct a boundary of spacetime which is null and admits a conformal Killing vector field. Furthermore we construct the space of solutions (in general theory of relativity) which admits such quasilocal conformal Killing boundaries. We also establish a form of first law for these quasilocal horizons.

Black hole entropy production and transport coefficients in Lovelock gravity

The formulation of the laws of Black hole mechanics assumes the stability of black holes under perturbations in accordance with the “cosmic censorship hypothesis” (CCH). CCH prohibits the formation of a naked singularity by a physical process from a regular black hole solution with an event horizon. Earlier studies show that naked singularities can indeed be formed leading to the violation of CCH if a near-extremal black hole is injected with massive charged particles and the backreaction effects are neglected. We investigate the validity of CCH by considering the infall of charged massless particles as well as a charged null shell. We also discuss the issue of the third law of Black hole mechanics in the presence of null charged particles by considering various possibilities.