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Embedding into flat spacetime and black hole thermodynamics

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Pith's one-line read A static black hole can be embedded in higher-dimensional flat spacetime, and the temperature and area entropy of its horizon follow from the Unruh effect and edge-state counting in that flat spacetime.

desk verdict A clean but mostly derivative GEMS paper: the temperature part works, the entropy part is explicitly unfinished, so the advertised flat-spacetime thermodynamics is only half delivered. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.09074 v3 pith:NQ7FYVWL submitted 2019-08-24 gr-qc hep-th

T.R. Govindarajan , Sumanta Chakraborty This is my paper · ORCID
classification gr-qchep-th MSC 83C5783C47 PACS 04.70.Dy04.62.+v
keywords blackholethermodynamicsflatspacetimeembeddingRindlerobserversUnruheffectHawkingtemperatureentropyedgestatesRobinboundarycondition
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The reading

This paper argues that the thermodynamic properties of static, spherically symmetric black holes can be derived without leaving flat spacetime: any such black hole can be embedded in a higher-dimensional flat geometry, and familiar flat-spacetime results then do the work. It shows that static observers in the black hole become uniformly accelerated Rindler observers in the embedding, with acceleration $\kappa_h/\sqrt{f(r)}$, so the Unruh temperature $\kappa_h/(2\pi\sqrt{f(r)})$ reduces to the Hawking temperature $\kappa_h/(2\pi)$ at infinity. It further argues that a scalar field on the flat embedding, restricted to the region outside the horizon sphere and subject to a Robin boundary condition, possesses edge states whose number scales with the horizon area, giving the Bekenstein-Hawking area law. If correct, this would mean black hole temperature and entropy need not await a theory of quantum gravity; they are already visible in the flat spacetime that hosts the black hole.

What carries the argument

The central mechanism is the flat-space embedding map combined with Rindler thermality. The map sends the exterior of any static, spherically symmetric black hole with $f(r)=g(r)$ into the right Rindler wedge of a $(d+2)$-dimensional Minkowski space; choosing the embedding scale $a$ to be the inverse surface gravity $\kappa_h^{-1}$ makes the embedding regular at the horizon. Static observers become Rindler observers, so the Unruh effect in flat spacetime produces the Hawking temperature. For entropy, the load-bearing object is the Robin boundary condition $\alpha R=dR/dr_*$ on the horizon; it makes the radial Klein-Gordon operator self-adjoint and produces discrete bound states whose maximum number grows as $\alpha^2 r_h^{d-2}$, and hence as horizon area, with $\alpha$ set by the Planck length.

What would settle it

A direct count of the edge states in the six-dimensional flat embedding of Schwarzschild would settle the entropy claim: if the number of states is not proportional to $16\pi M^2$, or carries corrections that survive in the horizon limit, the advertised area law fails. For the temperature claim, computing the acceleration of an embedded static observer at finite $r$ and finding anything other than $\kappa_h/\sqrt{f(r)}$ would falsify the mapping.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

In the authors' formulation, the central discovery is that the embedding itself is a thermodynamic dictionary. For a four-dimensional static, spherically symmetric metric with $f(r)=g(r)$, the coordinate map $Z^0=a\sqrt{f(r)}\sinh(t/a)$, $Z^1=a\sqrt{f(r)}\cosh(t/a)$, $Z^2=\int^r dr\,\sqrt{h(r)}$, with the angular coordinates carried over, reproduces the metric in six-dimensional Minkowski space when $h(r)=1/f(r)-1-(a/2)^2 f'(r)^2/f(r)$ and $a=\kappa_h^{-1}$. A static observer at fixed $r$ follows the hyperbola $(Z^0)^2-(Z^1)^2=-f(r)/\kappa_h^2$, i.e. a Rindler trajectory with acceleration $\kappa_h/\sqrt{f(r)}$, whose Davies-Unruh temperature is $\kappa_h/(2\pi\sqrt{f(r)})$; at infinity this is exactly the Hawking temperature. The horizon becomes a compact sphere in the flat spacetime, and imposing the Robin condition on a scalar field outside that sphere produces edge states whose count is proportional to the area of the sphere, which the authors argue extends to the black hole spacetime and yields entropy proportional to area.

Load-bearing premise

The entropy argument assumes that the edge states living on the horizon sphere in the flat embedding survive unchanged in the curved black hole spacetime, and that the free Robin parameter can be fixed to the inverse Planck length simply because it is the only scale in the problem.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For any non-extremal static, spherically symmetric black hole with $f(r)=g(r)$, the Hawking temperature follows from the Unruh temperature of the corresponding Rindler observer, with the redshift factor $\sqrt{f(r)}$ appearing automatically.
  • The embedding construction extends to higher-dimensional and pure-Lovelock black holes, so the same thermodynamic dictionary applies beyond Einstein gravity in four dimensions.
  • The entropy-area law for black holes can be reproduced from edge states of a scalar field on the flat embedding, without invoking a specific quantum-gravity model.
  • For spacetimes with more than one horizon, such as Reissner-Nordström, the temperature and entropy results are tied to the outer event horizon; the embedding is not regular at the Cauchy horizon.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A natural next step, not taken in the paper, is to compute the entropy proportionality constant from the flat-space edge-state spectrum instead of fixing $\alpha$ by dimensional analysis; that would turn the area law into a precise counting statement.
  • Because the temperature derivation only needs the near-horizon form of the embedding, it should survive for slowly rotating black holes if a suitable embedding with an angular shift is constructed, but the paper does not provide that construction.
  • The redshifted local temperature $\kappa_h/(2\pi\sqrt{f(r)})$ predicts that a detector hovering at finite radius sees a higher temperature than the asymptotic Hawking value; this is testable in principle in laboratory analogues with accelerated detectors.
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Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper develops a global embedding prescription for static, spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes into higher-dimensional flat spacetimes. Section 2 derives the embedding for the metric (1), fixes the embedding scale a = 1/κ_h by demanding regularity at the horizon, and notes the restriction to a single horizon. Section 3 illustrates the construction with Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström, BTZ, and pure Lovelock black holes. Section 4 argues that static observers near the black hole map to Rindler observers in the flat embedding, obtaining a Davies-Unruh temperature κ_h/(2π√f(r)) that reduces to the Hawking temperature at infinity; two further arguments based on the inertial propagator and on the affine group are also presented. Section 5 attempts to obtain the area law for black hole entropy by counting edge states of a scalar field in the flat embedding and in the curved spacetime, invoking Robin boundary conditions. The paper concludes that flat-spacetime field theory can provide a thermodynamic description of black holes. The temperature part is largely a clean restatement of the GEMS program, while the entropy part relies on imported results and explicit expectations rather than on a derivation performed in this work.

Significance. If fully established, the claimed construction would be a conceptually attractive bridge between black hole thermodynamics and flat-spacetime physics. The embedding algebra in Section 2 is explicit and checkable, the examples in Section 3 demonstrate the scope of the method, and the temperature mapping in Section 4 is a correct and useful restatement of the known GEMS correspondence. The appendix also provides a careful derivation of the effective potential for a scalar field in a general static, spherically symmetric spacetime, and the BTZ and Schwarzschild limits agree with known expressions. The entropy part is the main weakness: the area law is not derived from first principles in this manuscript, but is imported from Ref. [32] and then asserted to carry over to the black hole spacetime. Because the abstract's central claim explicitly includes entropy, the manuscript overreaches as written. The correct scope of the present contribution is the temperature derivation plus a suggestive but incomplete entropy picture.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 5, Eq. (15)-(17)] The derivation of the area law from the curved-space Schr\"odinger-type equation is not completed. After Eq. (15), the text states that 'there will definitely be some discrete energy states, whose number will have a maximum bound corresponding to some value proportional to α r_h', but no spectral count, WKB estimate, or any other quantitative argument is given that would fix the number of bound states as proportional to α r_h. The subsequent conclusion that entropy scales as α^2 r_h^{d-2} ∝ Area therefore rests on an assertion rather than on a demonstrated property of Eq. (15). Since the abstract's claim of a thermodynamic description includes entropy, this missing counting is load-bearing.
  2. [Section 5, flat-space edge-state argument] The flat-spacetime route to the area law is explicitly conditional. The text says the number of edge states in R^3 − B is proportional to the boundary area, citing Ref. [32], and then states: 'It is expected that this result in flat spacetime will transcend to the black hole spacetime.' This is an admitted assumption rather than a derived result. To support the paper's central claim, the authors need either to prove the transfer from the flat embedding to the original black hole spacetime (e.g., by showing the relevant Laplacians have isomorphic self-adjoint extensions with the same spectral density) or to weaken the claim to a conjecture. As written, the flat-spacetime entropy argument does not by itself deliver black hole entropy.
  3. [Section 5, choice α = 1/l_P] The identification of the Robin parameter with the inverse Planck length is fixed by dimensional analysis alone, and the paper itself acknowledges that 'the proportionality factor can not be determined by this route.' This is not a minor caveat: the entropy-area relation is obtained only up to an undetermined coefficient, while the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy has a specific coefficient A/(4G_N). If α is merely the only available length scale, then any other inverse length would produce the same formal area scaling, and the argument does not select the physical coefficient. The authors should either derive α from a microscopic construction or state explicitly that the entropy result is only a scaling law, not a derivation of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Section 4, Eq. (13)] The propagator ratio in Eq. (13) is quoted from Refs. [48,49] without derivation. Since the temperature already follows from the trajectory calculation in the same section, this is not a fatal issue, but the manuscript should either provide a derivation or clearly label Eq. (13) as a known result.
  2. [Section 4, affine-group paragraph] In the paragraph on the affine-group method, the temperature is written as (κ_h/√f(r)), missing the factor 2π that appears in the other two derivations; it should read κ_h/(2π√f(r)) for consistency.
  3. [Section 3.4, horizon parametrization] The parametrization of the horizon in the flat embedding writes (Z^4)^2 + ... + (Z^{d+1})^2 = (2M)^{2m/(d-2m-1)}, but for d = 4 the angular sphere is described by Z^3, Z^4, Z^5 (as used later in Section 5). The index convention should be made consistent.
  4. [Throughout] There are several typographical errors, including 'specatime' in Section 4, 'presen ted' in Section 2, and 'T amil Nadu' and 'Na du' in the author affiliations. A careful proofread is needed.

Circularity Check

2 steps flagged · score 6.0 of 10

Entropy half of the central claim is load-bearing self-citation: the area scaling is imported from Ref. [32] (same first author) and transferred to black holes by expectation, while the temperature derivation is independently grounded.

  1. self citation load bearing [Section 5, flat-spacetime entropy argument (paragraph immediately after the Klein-Gordon separation)]
    "Thus the number of edge states associated with the above region R3 − B, pertaining to the hermiticity of the operator and Robin boundary condition is proportional to the two-dimensional area of the horizon [32]. Thus one naturally ends up with the entropy area relation for black holes."

    The central entropy claim is the proportionality of microstate count to horizon area. That proportionality is not derived in this paper; it is taken from Ref. [32], whose first author is one of the present authors. The next sentence, 'It is expected that this result in flat spacetime will transcend to the black hole spacetime', concedes that the flat-to-curved transfer is not demonstrated. The advertised derivation of black-hole entropy from flat-spacetime field theory therefore rests on a self-citation for the area count and on an expectation for the transfer, rather than on an independent derivation.

  2. other [Section 5, curved-spacetime Robin-boundary argument (after Eq. (17))]
    "there will definitely be some discrete energy states, whose number will have a maximum bound corresponding to some value ∝ αrh. Thus the entropy associated with the states of the scalar field living inside the horizon, scales as n(d−2)max, as we sum over all possible bound states, which in turn scales as α2r(d−2)h ∝ Area. Note that the parameter α2 appearing in the expression for entropy can be related to the inverse of the Planck length, since this is the only meaningful length unit one can construct, we get the entropy to be ∝ (A/GN)."

    The area law is inserted through the assumed scaling n_max ∝ α r_h combined with the hand-made choice α = 1/l_P. No spectral count or bound-state enumeration is performed to justify n_max; the text simply asserts it. Since the quoted passage then exponentiates this assumed scaling into S ∝ A/G_N and admits the coefficient is undetermined, the curved-space 'confirmation' restates the input rather than computing the entropy independently.

full rationale

The temperature part is not circular: the embedding construction (Eqs. (2)-(4)) is explicit, and Section 4 shows that a static observer maps to a Rindler trajectory with acceleration κ_h/√f(r), so the Davies-Unruh temperature becomes κ_h/(2π) at infinity, i.e. the Hawking temperature. This is a real calculation using standard external input. The entropy part is where the advertised 'thermodynamic description' loses independence. Section 5 imports the edge-state count ∝ area from Ref. [32], a first-author paper by one of the present authors, and then explicitly says the flat-space result is expected to transcend to black-hole spacetime. The parallel curved-space argument does not compute a spectrum: it asserts a maximum bound-state count ∝ α r_h and chooses α ~ 1/l_P because it is the only length scale, while admitting the coefficient is undetermined. Thus the entropy-area law is effectively put in by self-citation and by the choice of α, not derived from the embedding. Overall, the paper has a sound, externally grounded temperature derivation but its entropy derivation is partially circular/incomplete, so the central claim as a whole is only partially supported. Score 6 reflects that one major half of the central claim reduces to a load-bearing self-citation plus an unproven transfer.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The analysis rests on standard background results (Unruh effect, propagator thermality, edge-state self-adjoint extensions) plus the paper's restriction to f(r)=g(r) with one non-extremal horizon. The main uncharged parameter is the Robin boundary parameter alpha, chosen as 1/l_P to turn a dimensionless area scaling into S proportional to A/G_N; without that choice the entropy prefactor is arbitrary. No new physical entities are introduced; the higher-dimensional flat space is a mathematical embedding device.

free parameters (1)
  • Robin boundary parameter alpha = alpha ~ 1/l_P (chosen by hand, not derived)
    Entropy scales as alpha^2 r_h^(d-2); converting this to the Bekenstein-Hawking area law requires alpha ~ 1/l_P, and the one-quarter proportionality factor remains undetermined.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption A uniformly accelerated observer in the Minkowski vacuum sees thermal radiation at temperature a/2pi (Unruh/Davies effect).
    Used in Section 4 to convert the acceleration kappa_h/sqrt(f(r)) of a static observer's embedded trajectory into a temperature.
  • domain assumption The inertial propagator in Rindler coordinates yields a thermal ratio |A(Omega)|^2/|A(-Omega)|^2 = exp(-2pi Omega/a), as derived in Refs [48,49].
    Invoked without derivation to obtain Eq. (13) and the redshifted Hawking temperature.
  • domain assumption The embedding exists only for f(r)=g(r) and one non-extremal horizon, because h(r) is singular otherwise.
    Section 2 derives this restriction; Section 4 says the outer event horizon is sufficient for thermodynamics.
  • domain assumption The number of edge states in R^3 - B with Robin boundary conditions scales as the two-dimensional area of the boundary B (Ref [32]).
    The flat-spacetime entropy argument in Section 5 rests entirely on this imported count.
  • ad hoc to paper The Robin parameter alpha may be identified with the inverse Planck length because that is the only length scale in the problem.
    This is not derived; it is the step that turns S proportional to alpha^2 A into S proportional to A/G_N, and the one-quarter coefficient is left open.

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It is known that static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions of general relativity in different spacetimes can be embedded into higher dimensional flat spacetime. Given this result, we have explored the thermodynamic nature of black holes \'{a} la its embedding into flat spacetime. In particular, we have explicitly demonstrated that black hole temperature can indeed be determined starting from the embedding and hence mapping of the static observers in black hole spacetime to Rindler observers in flat spacetime. Furthermore, by considering the dynamics of a scalar field in the flat spacetime it is indeed possible to arrive at the area scaling law for black hole entropy. Thus using flat spacetime field theory, one can indeed provide a thermodynamic description of black holes. Implications are also discussed.

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