In this review we describe the statistical mechanics of quantum systems in the presence of a Killing horizon and compare statistical-mechanical and 1-loop contributions to black-hole entropy. The study of these questions was motivated by attempts to explain the entropy of black holes as a statistical-mechanical entropy of quantum fields propagating near the black-hole horizon. We provide an introduction to this field of research and review its results. In particular, we discuss the relation between the statistical-mechanical entropy of quantum fields and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in the standard scheme with renormalization of gravitational coupling constants and in the theories of induced gravity.
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%A Frolov, V. P.
%A Fursaev, D. V.
%D 1998
%J Classical and Quantum Gravity
%K black-holes, entropy, thermal-fields
%N 8
%P 2041--2074
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/15/8/001
%T Thermal fields, entropy and black holes
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/15/8/001
%V 15
%X In this review we describe the statistical mechanics of quantum systems in the presence of a Killing horizon and compare statistical-mechanical and 1-loop contributions to black-hole entropy. The study of these questions was motivated by attempts to explain the entropy of black holes as a statistical-mechanical entropy of quantum fields propagating near the black-hole horizon. We provide an introduction to this field of research and review its results. In particular, we discuss the relation between the statistical-mechanical entropy of quantum fields and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in the standard scheme with renormalization of gravitational coupling constants and in the theories of induced gravity.
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