Sunday 29 October 2017

general relativity - Significance for LQG of Sen's result on entropy of black holes?


Sen 2013 says,



...we apply Euclidean gravity to compute logarithmic corrections to the entropy of various non-extremal black holes in different dimensions [...] For Schwarzschild black holes in four space-time dimensions the macroscopic result seems to disagree with the existing result in loop quantum gravity.




How serious a problem is this for LQG? Does this mean that LQG doesn't have GR as its semiclassical limit? Does that mean it's a dead theory, or maybe just that it needs to be modified? Is the technique using Euclidean gravity reliable?


Since I'm not a specialist, I'd be interested in a hand-wavy explanation of what the Euclidean gravity technique is about.


Sen, http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1205.0971




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