1. Introduction
The thermodynamical properties of gravity could prove to be most important in attempting to construct a theory of quantum gravity. Every black hole (BH) can be regarded as a black body with temperature given by the Hawking temperature [
1,
2] and an entropy given by the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy [
1,
3].
In various fields of physics, statistics and informatics, there have been proposed different forms of non-extensive entropies, with their corresponding statistics. In particular, the present authors, with some collaborators, have explicitly proposed generalised entropies, which depend on several parameters (see Refs. [
4,
5]). They generalise all previously known entropies, as Rényi entropy [
6], the Tsallis entropy [
7] (see also [
8,
9]), the Sharma-Mittal entropy [
10], Barrow’s entropy [
11], the Kaniadakis entropy [
12,
13], Loop Quantum Gravity’s entropy [
14], etc. Such entropies have been proposed to describe different kinds of physical, statistical, and information systems.
Note, however, that the Hawking temperature,
, can be obtained from the Hawking radiation, which has a thermal distribution. This tells us that the Hawking temperature
is independent of the details of the gravity theory, and it is only determined by the geometry. Furthermore, if we consider the collapse of the dust shell that yields the black hole, and we assume energy conservation, the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) mass [
15] must be the thermodynamical energy of the system, at least in the case of a Schwarzschild black hole.
Recently, a number of works have appeared where different non-extensive kinds of entropies have been applied in the study of black hole thermodynamics (see, e.g, [
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
32]). Unfortunately, the Hawking temperature or black hole energy obtained in such non-extensive entropy black hole thermodynamics seems to be incorrect.
One may still conjecture that, in the early universe, the non-extensive generalised entropy could be valid. With the universe’s evolution, the form of the physical entropy might change to later acquire its current form. Therefore, there is some good motivation for the study of different entropies, which were applied in cosmology and BHs. In fact, various expressions of entropy lead to different holographic cosmologies [
33,
34] and models of holographic dark energy [
35,
36,
37,
38,
39,
40,
41,
42]. The holographic approach can be also applied to understand inflation at the early universe [
43]. This makes it possible to describe dark energy and inflation via holographic cosmology in a unified way. A microscopic description of the generalised entropy has been also proposed. It might be helpful in clarifying the structure of a quantum gravity theory, which is still to be constructed.
In this review paper, we confirm once more that the Hawking temperature and the ADM mass may correspond to the thermodynamical temperature and energy uniquely, at least in the case of the Schwarzschild black hole. This shows then that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is also a unique BH entropy. As a follow-up, we review several approaches where the generalised entropy could be applied for the consideration of several kinds of black holes with hair(s).
In the next section, we show that the temperature and the entropy of the Schwarzschild black hole are given by the Hawking temperature (
Section 2.1) and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, respectively, by identifying the ADM mass with the thermodynamical energy (
Section 2.2). In
Section 3, we discuss in more detail the question of whether the Hawking temperature and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy are unique, or not. To this purpose, we show that the ADM mass should be thermodynamical energy, by using the geometry of the black hole and the energy conservation via Birkhoff’s theorem. In
Section 4, for the non-extensive entropy, we explicitly consider if it could give the Hawking temperature and the ADM mass correctly. In especial, the Rényi entropy is discussed in
Section 4.1, Tsallis entropy in
Section 4.2, and further generalised entropies, as the four- and five-parameter generalised entropies, in
Section 4.3. In
Section 5, we study if it might be possible that hairy BH thermodynamics could be described by generalised entropies, for the Reissner-Nordström black hole in
Section 5.1, and for Einstein’s gravity coupled to two scalar fields, in
Section 5.2. In the latter case, after showing the general formulation, in
Section 5.2.1, and some examples, in
Section 5.2.2, we consider two kinds of possibilities. Namely, the case that the ADM mass does not give the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, in
Section 5.2.3, and the case that the effective mass expressing the energy inside the horizon does not give the Hawking temperature, in
Section 5.2.4. In
Section 6, for the models obtained in
Section 5.2, we get the radii of the photon sphere and of the black hole shadow. Then observations give constraints on the BH parameters. They turn out to be consistent, if the black holes are of the Schwarzschild type, although future observations may also give some information about BH thermodynamics. In
Section 7, for more general expressions of the generalised entropies, we propose microscopic particle descriptions of the corresponding thermodynamical system. We investigate this problem by using a microcanonical ensemble, in
Section 7.1, and a canonical ensemble, in
Section 7.2. In
Section 8, by using the expression of the McLaughlin expansion for the generalised entropies, we consider the microscopic interpretation of the generalised entropies in the frame of a canonical ensemble, in
Section 8.1, and of a grand canonical ensemble, in
Section 8.2. The last section of the paper contains a summary and final discussion.
2. Entropy Consistent with Hawking Radiation
The Hawking radiation has a thermal distribution, from which we can find the Hawking temperature . The geometry with the horizon generates Hawking’s radiation. Therefore, the Hawking temperature, , is only determined by the geometry and is independent of the details of the gravity theory, which realises the geometry.
Let us consider a system whose size is
R and the energy and the entropy inside the system are
E and
, respectively. Then Bekenstein bound is given by [
44]
In the case of the black hole,
R can be identified with the diameter of the horizon, that is, twice the horizon radius. We also need to check if the bound (
1) is satisfied for general entropy because this bound ensures that the generalised second law of the thermodynamics is not violated.
2.1. Hawking Temperature from Geometry
First, we find the Hawking temperature. When the metric can be regarded as static, that is, the time-dependence of the metric can be neglected, we consider the line element with a horizon at
,
Assume that
is positive everywhere and sufficiently smooth in the region near the horizon
. Therefore we may approximate
by a constant,
. We now introduce a new coordinate
defined by
that is,
By Wick-rotating the time coordinate
t as
, we obtain the following Euclidean metric
We avoid the conical singularity at
by imposing the periodicity on
,
In the finite temperature formalism of the path-integral, the periodicity
corresponds to the inverse of the temperature
which we call the Hawking temperature. In the case of the Schwarzschild spacetime,
Here G is Newton’s gravitational constant and M is ADM BH mass.
2.2. Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy from Thermodynamics
As is well-known, the area law for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy [
3] can always be obtained if we identify the thermodynamical energy
E with the black hole mass
M,
, and the temperature of the system with the Hawking temperature (
7) [
2],
. In fact, the thermodynamical relation
yields
which can be integrated to be
where
is a constant of the integration. If we assume
when
, that is, when there is no black hole, we find
and we obtain
Here
is the area of the horizon. Therefore the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, that is, the area law for BH entropy, can be obtained by assuming
and
by using the thermodynamical relation
. Note that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
, of course, satisfies the Bekenstein bound in (
1) because
.
5. More General Black Hole
The thermodynamical relation
does not generally hold, for example, if there is a chemical potential. The first law of thermodynamics is,
is the heat which flows into the system and
is the work which the system received. The variation of the work
can be expressed as
Here P and V are the pressure and the volume of the system and is the number of the i-th kind of particles which flow into the system and is the corresponding chemical potential.
When we discussed if the thermodynamical energy should be the ADM mass in
Section 3 by using the falling dust shell, we have assumed that the region outside the dust shell is the vacuum. In a realistic situation, all the matter does not fall into the black hole but the matter outside the horizon contributes to the ADM mass. In the case of the Reissner-Nordström black hole, the ADM mass includes the contributions from the electromagnetic field outside the horizon. More in general, if BH has any hair, the energy density of the hair contributes to the ADM mass and changes the thermodynamical relation
as in (
44). In this section, we discuss the possibility that the generalised entropies could be given by the hairy black hole. We now review the thermodynamics of the Reissner-Nordström black hole, and after that, we consider the black hole with scalar hair(s). For the construction of the black hole with scalar hair(s), we use the model where the Einstein gravity couples with two scalar fields.
5.1. Reissner-Nordström Black Hole
The metric of the Reissner-Nordström BH is given by the following line element,
Here
Q is the electric charge of the black hole and the ADM mass is given by
M as in the Schwarzschild black hole. As well-known, the Reissner-Nordström black hole has two horizons. The radii
of the horizons are given by
Here
is the radius of the outer horizon and
is that of the inner one. Eq. (
47 shows that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
is given by,
Here
is the entropy corresponding to the outer horizon and
to the inner one. The Hawking temperature
corresponding to the outer horizon is given by
Then there is a correction by the last term.
One may consider a possibility to define a generalised entropy
instead of (
50),
In the case of the Reissner-Nordström black hole, it is generally impossible because the system depends on two variables
M and
Q. Let first assume
,
. Then Eq. (
51) can be rewritten as,
Then we find
and therefore the integrablity condition requires
because
should not depend on
Q. This conflicts with the expression of the Hawking temperature in (
49), which explicitly depends on
Q. A possibility is to consider a one-dimensional line in the two-dimensional
M-
Q as
. Then Eq. (
52) tells,
As an example, we consider the case
with a constant satisfying a condition
. In this case, Eq. (
49) gives
and therefore Eq. (
53) can be integrated to give,
Here we choose the constant of the integration so that
vanishes when
M vanishes. The obtained expression (
55) is proportional to
, which is similar to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in (
10) with
although the coefficient is different. Other function
gives more general expressions but it depends on the physical process of the black hole creation. The case
could correspond to the process that BH is created only by the accretion of the charged particle whose ratio of the charge with the mass is
.
5.2. Gravity Coupled with Two Scalar Fields
In [
45], it has been shown that arbitrarily given spherically symmetric spacetimes can be realised within Einstein’s gravity coupled with two scalar fields even if the spacetime is time-dependent. The original model of Ref. [
45], however, includes ghosts, which make the model inconsistent. After that, it was found that the ghosts could be excluded by imposing constraints by the Lagrange multiplier fields [
62,
63,
64,
65].
The action in the model of Ref. [
45] includes two scalar fields
and
, which couple with Einstein’s gravity,
Here , , and are called kinetic functions and is the potential, which are functions of the two scalar fields and . Furthermore, is the Lagrangian density of matter. The gravitational coupling constant is related to Newton’s gravitational constant G as . In this section, we mainly use the geometrised units .
General spherically symmetric and time-dependent spacetime is described by the metric given by the following line element,
We also assume,
which does not lead to any loss of generality [
45].
We should note, however, that the functions
A and/or
C are often negative, which makes
and/or
to be ghosts. The ghosts can be eliminated by imposing constraints by using the Lagrange multiplier fields
and
and modifying the action (
56)
, where the additional term
is given by
By varying
with respect to
and
, we obtain the following constraints:
which is consistent with the assumption (
58). The constraints from Eq. (
60) make the scalar fields
and
non-dynamical, and the fluctuations of
and
around the background (
58) do not propagate ( see [
62,
63,
64,
65,
66] for detail).
We now construct a model which has a solution realising the functions
and
in Eq. (
57). The matter is assumed to be a perfect fluid with the energy density
and the pressure
p,
Here
. For the spacetime given by Eq. (
57), the Einstein equations can re rewritten as follows,
This tells that we obtain a model that realises the spacetime described by the metric (
57) by finding
-dependence of
and
p and by replacing
in Eq. (
62) with
.
5.2.1. Black Hole with Scalar Hair
We now consider the time-independent geometry, that is, static, spherical, and asymptotically flat spacetimes,
Asymptotic flatness corresponds to and we normalise the time coordinate t, to .
Let us now investigate the effects of the scalar hair and write the energy density of the scalar fields by
. Then as in the standard Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov (TOV) equation, the time-time component of the Einstein equations gives
Here a prime “′” denotes differentiation with respect to
r. The mass function
is defined by
which gives
and by integrating the expression, we obtain
In the case of a compact star like a neutron star, the lower limit of the integration is chosen to be
. In the case of the black hole, the boundary condition is given at the horizon
so that
If the geometry is asymptotically Schwarzschild spacetime, the ADM mass is given by
Note that
is not the total mass, which should be defined by
Here
is the determinant of the three-dimensional spatial metric,
The second term in the last line of Eq. (
69) can be interpreted as the Newtonian gravitational potential energy
Here and are three-dimensional volume elements and the general-relativistic nonlinear corrections are identified by term and higher power terms of G.
The above arguments could tell that the contribution to the mass from the scalar hair could be given by
This term gives a correction as in the second term of Eq. (
44)
Then the correction of the general entropy from the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy might be interpreted as the contribution from
. As we can identify
, however, Eq. (
73) can be rewrittten as
Because
and the Hawking temerature is given by
, Eq. (
74) is approved only if we choose
to be the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy,
as in the standard black hole thermodynamics.
We should note, however, that there might be a possibility to define a generalised entropy
as in (
51) by using the first law in (
44) as follows
We investigate the possibility in the following.
Even for more general gravity theories including the modified gravities, as an analogue of (
64), we may define the effective energy density
by using only geometry,
and also define the effective mass function as in (
65)
Then by integrating (
76), we obtain the counterpart of (
66),
We may interpret as the mass acted upon by the attractive force at radius r. We use this definition later.
5.2.2. Examples
In order to consider the examples, we now assume [
59],
with a constant radius of the horizon
. We do not include matter besides the two scalar fields
and
. Then the expressions (
62) give,
We should note that
A,
C, and
V in (
80) depend explicitly on the horizon radius
, that is, the horizon radius is fixed in this model. There could be other solutions besides Eq. (
79), but it could not be easy to find them. This problem can be bypassed by using the trick of Ref. [
67]. We add a new term in the Lagrangian density including new fields
and
as
. By the variation of
with respect to
yields constant
,
We now identify
with the horizon radius
. By replacing
with
in the equations in (
80),
is given as an integration constant appearing from Eq. (
81),
Here , . By the choice of , we obtain several examples.
5.2.3. Thermodynamics
As an example, we consider the case
Then when
r is large, Eq. (
79) tells
Therefore is the ADM mass.
In order to consider the possibility of (
75), as an example, we consider the Rényi entropy in (
12), which has now the following form
Because the Hawking temperature is given by
, if we assume (
75), we find
Therefore in (
83) if we choose
we obtain a model whose entropy is described by the Rényi entropy
.
Similarly, for the generalised entropy
, if we choose
in (
83) by
a model whose entropy is
can be constructed.
5.2.4. Thermodynamics Based on
Here based on [
59], we consider the thermodynamics by using
in (
78). Instead of (
79), we assume,
Here
is a positive function of
r. As in (
82), the geometry (
89) is realised by using (
62) with the Lagrangian density
,
Here is identified with the radius of the horizon, .
One should note that
must vanish when
vanishes in order to avoid the curvature singularity. Both
and
vanish at the horizon, one can write the horizon radius by
,
As we find the Hawking temperature (
7), we now consider the temperature of the black hole. Near the horizon, we write the radial coordinate as
. Then we obtain,
Here
. By a Wick rotation,
, the line element (
2) near the horizon behaves as
By using a new radial coordinate
defined by
, which gives,
we rewrite line element (
93) as
In order to avoid conical singularities near
in the Euclidean space, we need to impose the periodicity of the Euclidean time coordinate
,
Because the period of the Euclidean time corresponds to the temperature
T, we find
Here the Hawking temperature
is now given by,
Therefore we find the temperature T deviates from the Hawking temperature by the factor , which cannot be absorbed by rescaling time.
By the analogy of the thermodynamical relation
, we define the entropy proper to the black hole.
By integrating (
99), we obtain,
We now consider the possibility that could be different from the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
By solving the field equations of a certain gravitational theory, there appear several constants of the integration,
. For example, in general relativity, the mass
M of the Schwarzschild black hole (
8) appears as an integration constant. Both the mass
M and charge
Q in the Reissner-Nordström black hole (
46) are also constants of the integration. The horizon radius
could be given by a function of
as in the usual Schwarzschild black hole, where. we find
as a function of the integration constant
M. Other quantities could be also obtained as functions of
, such as
, etc. We may also assume that the constants
’s are parametrised using a single parameter
,
as mentioned before Eq. (
53) in the case of the Reissner-Nordström black hole.
Eq. (
97) can be used to rewrite Eq. (
100) in the following form
By choosing
, Eq. (
101) is simplified to be,
Here the constant of the integration is fixed by using the condition
at
. In the case of the Schwarzschild black hole, where
,
, Bekenstein-Hawking entropy (
11) is reproduced. In general, however, if
non-trivially contribution to the entropy,
may be different from the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
.
In fact, Eq. (
102) gives,
Therefore for certain expressions of the general entropies, we find the corresponding form of
For example, in the case of the Rényi entropy (
12), we obtain
and for the Tsallis entropy (
18), Eq. (
103) becomes
Furthermore for the three-parameter generalised entropy
in (
29), we find
and the six-parameter entropy
in (
28) yields
Even for the four-parameter one
in (
27), the five-parameter one
in (
30), we can find the corresponding quantity
.
Application of the alternative entropies to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy to black holes lead to inconsistencies in the thermodynamics as we discussed but the inconsistencies might be avoided for non-Schwarzschild black holes in modified gravity if the horizon radius and therefore the area appearing in Bekenstein’s area law are modified as we have shown. Hence, the consistency of new entropy proposals with Hawking temperature and area law could be possible for the above black holes as it is shown in this section.
6. Photon Sphere and Black Hole Shadow
Recently, there has been much interest in BH shadow. Let us briefly discuss this topic here in relation to different BH thermodynamics. A photon sphere is the set of the circular orbit of the photon. The radius
of the photon sphere gives the radius
of the black hole shadow as follows,
The orbit of the photon is governed by the following Lagrangian,
Here the “dot” or “
˙” expresses the derivative with respect to the affine parameter. The fact that the geodesic of the photon is null tells
. We find the conserved quantities corresponding to energy
E and angular momentum
L because there are no the explicit dependences on
t and
in the Lagrangian
,
The total energy
of the system should be also conserved and given by,
We should note that vanishes identically for the null geodesic.
Without any loss of generality, we can choose the coordinate system where the orbit of the photon is on the equatorial plane with
. For the coordinate choice, the condition
can be written as
We write this system in an analogous way to the classical dynamical system with potential
,
Because the radius of the circular orbit is defined by , the radius is given by solving by using the analogy with classical mechanics. For the Schwarzschild spacetime, we find and .
In the model (
79) with (
83), we find
which gives
which gives
In the Schwarzschild black hole case,
, the above expression gives
. The case of
is unphysical because the origin is inside the horizon. The second case
gives the standard result. In general, the minus signature in the front of the square root in (
117) gives the radius smaller than the horizon radius and therefore we choose the plus signature in (
117).
Then Eq. (
109) gives the radius
of the black hole shadow,
Here
which is a unity for the Schwarzschild black hole.
We now compare the obtained result with the observation. For M87*, the constraint for the radius is given by
[
68] or
and For Sgr A*, we have
[
69]. By using the parameter
(
119), the constraint from M87* is rewritten as
and Sgr A* as
. Therefore, the results are consistent with the Schwarzschild black hole, where
.
If by future observations, we find could not be unity, the black hole is different from the Schwarzschild one and thermodynamics could be different from that of the Schwarzschild black hole. If we also obtain more information like the ADM mass of the black hole, we may obtain some clues to consider what kind of thermodynamics the black hole obeys. Especially if we obtain the information from several black holes, we may find more universal thermodynamics which governs the black holes.
7. Microcanonical and Canonical Description for Generalised Entropy
From the viewpoint of quantum gravity, the microscopic understanding of generalised entropy could be important and suggestive. In this section, based on [
70], we consider the origins of various entropies in microscopic particle descriptions of the thermodynamical system. Note that basically, microscopic description gives some particle system which obeys the corresponding statistics (entropy). As we have entropy which depends on several parameters, we can eventually propose novel, not yet discovered information and statistical systems which obey these entropies.
7.1. Microcanonical Description
In this subsection, by using the microcanonical ensemble in thermodynamics, we consider how various generalised entropies appear in the isolated system with fixed energy E.
The standard Gibbs entropy is expressed as,
We choose the Boltzmann constant to be unity. Under the assumption the number of states with a fixed energy
E is
and a probability realising the
i-th state with the energy
E is denoted by
. Therefore we obtain,
A generalization of the entropy with a parameter
is proposed in [
7] by Tsallis,
In the limit of
,
reduces to the standard expression in (
120).
A further generalisation is given by the following expression,
We may regard
as a function of
and consider the maximum of
in (
123) under the constraint (
121), which is nothing but the thermal equilibrium. Then we obtain an expression of the generalised entropy in the thermal equilibrium in the following form (see [
70] for more detailed calculations),
In the microcanonical approach, we define the temperature
T by
This expression corresponds to (
120).
We may consider the continuous phase space of
N particles
instead of considering the discrete states, which may be regarded with the limit of
. In this limit, Eq. (
123) has the following forms,
We should note that
s may generally depend on
and
explicitly. In (
126),
expresses the integration of the phase space for fixed energy
E.
In general, the function
s includes a finite or infinite number of parameters,
,
,
, In a limit of the parameters,
,
s may reduce to that in the Gibbs entropy (
120). As mentioned in Sub
Section 4.3, we impose the following conditions for
s with the parameters
,
In standard thermodynamics, the following zeroth law must be also imposed,
The zeroth law does not hold in the case of non-extensive entropies like the Tsallis entropy [
71]. This tells the generalised entropies do not always satisfy the zeroth law.
As we obtain (
124) (see [
70] for more detailed calculations), we find
Here is the volume of the phase space, which can be finite because the energy E is fixed. By the choice of s, we obtain several kinds of entropy.
Just for a simple example, we may consider one non-relativistic particle with mass
m moving on the two-dimensional space with the area
A. Because the energy
E is fixed and given by
the volume of the momentum space is equal to the area of a two-dimensional sphere with the radius
,
. Therefore we obtain
By the choice of
, the standard expression of the Gibbs entropy, denoted by
is obtained, which we now denote
,
On the other hand, if
is given by
with positive dimensionless parameters
, we obtain an expression similar to the three-parameter entropy (
29) in [
4]. On the other hand, if
is given by
we obtain an expression corresponding to a four-parameters generalised entropy (
27) proposed in [
5]. It is straightforward to find
corresponding to other versions of generalised entropy.
In the case of non-extensive systems, such as gravitational or electromagnetic ones, the standard Gibbs additive entropy (
120) should be replaced by the non-extensive Tsallis entropy [
7]. The non-extensive entropy tells that the numbers of the states show the running behaviour by the change of the energy scale, as in the renormalisation group of quantum field theory. Because the entropy corresponds to the physical degrees of freedom of a system, the renormalisation group of a quantum theory implies that the degrees of freedom depend on the energy scale. In the low-energy regime, massive modes decouple, and therefore the degrees of freedom decrease. In the case of gravity, if the space-time fluctuations become large in the ultraviolet regime, the degrees of freedom might increase. On the other hand, if gravity becomes topological, the degrees of freedom decrease. The latter situation is consistent with holography. This could suggest that the generalised entropy might also appear by reflecting the quantum structure of gravity.
7.2. Canonical Description
We now consider the canonical ensemble in thermodynamics, where the system is in equilibrium with the heat bath with temperature T. Even for the canonical ensemble, various versions of entropy appear to originate from the integration measure in the phase space.
The partition function of
N particles is defined by
Here and are the coordinates of the position and the momenta for the i-th particle, respectively, as in the last subsection. We define as susual, . The reason why we use the measure is because it is invariant under the canonical transformation in classical mechanics. We should note, however, that in quantum mechanics, only the cartesian coordinates have a special meaning.
More in general, instead of
, we may consider measure given by
and we may define the partition function as follows,
In the situation that we confine the particles in the box with edge length
L,
is given by
Here
is the usual Heaviside step function,
We may consider the following model as an example,
Here
X is an adequate function. After the integration in the phase space, we obtain,
which gives the following free energy
,
This expression give the following thermodynamical energy
,
and the entropy
If we assume
is given by
with Newton’s gravitational constant
G, the last term in (
141) may dominate for large
R, which results in Bekenstein-Hawking entropy,
On the other hand, if we choose
by
, Tsallis entropy in (
18) can be obtained,
The function appearing in the measure should be given by the properties of the corresponding physical system but we can find the measure which gives the corresponding kind of (generalised) entropy.
In the case of Rényi entropy in (
12), we find
. For the three-parameter entropy (
29), we obtain
Further, a four-parameters generalised entropy (
27) is given by
Thus we have shown that the function corresponding to the generalised entropy can be always found.
The general measure may originate from the modification of the commutation relation
. We consider the following commutation relation (here we write the reduced Planck constant or Dirac’s constant
ℏ explicitly),
which induces the metric in the phase space as follows,
Here
is the inverse matrix of
when
is regarded as
matrix,
. The metric
gives the following volume form,
Due to the symplectic structure of the phase space,
is a Pfaffian. In the case that
is proportional to the unit matrix,
,
reduces to the previous expression of the general measure,
We should note that we cannot rewrite the metric in (
147) and the commutation relations in (
146) in a diagonal form like
by any redefinition of the variables
,
if there is a non-trivial curvature given by the metric in (
147).
For the three-parameter entropy (
29), by using (
137) with (
144), we find Eq. (
146) has the following form,
Here the inverse power of the delta function does not have a physical meaning but the delta function
can be defined by,
This suggests that instead of (
150), by choosing the parameter
sufficiently large, we replace the commutation relation in (
150) by,
which might be the origin of the three-parameter entropy (
29).
It is known that due to the generalised uncertainty principle based on the introduction of the minimal length [
72], the modification of the canonical commutation relations could be generated. The motivation of the minimal length comes from string theory where the minimum size of the fundamental string is finite.
8. Microscopic Interpretation of Generalised Entropy
Except the analogy of the Tsallis entropy in (
18) and the Barrow entropy [
11], the generalised entropies
, which are functions of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
, coincide with
in the limit of
and they have the McLaughlin expansion with respect to
,
Here
is defined by
and the functions of the parameters specifying the generalsed entropy
. The explicit forms of
for
in (
29), the four-parameter one
in (
27), the five-parameter one
in (
30), and the six-parameter entropy
in (
28), see [
73]. In this section, based on [
73], we consider the generalised entropies in the microscopic viewpoint of the canonical and grand canonical ensembles.
8.1. Canonical Description
In the canonical prescription, the phase space density of a thermodynamical system composed of
N particles is expressed as
where
. Here
T is the temperature as before and we choose the Boltzmann constant as unity. The index
j runs from
to
and
are generalised coordinates and generalised momenta of the system, respectively. We denote the Hamiltonian of the system by
and
is the partition function which depends on temperature (
T), volume (
V) and number of particles (
N) of the system. In (
155), h is the Planck constant. The expression of the partition function
(
155) tells that the total probability is surely unity,
which allows us to define the ensemble average of a general microscopic quantity
by,
The Gibbs entropy which we denote by
corresponding to (
9) is defined by
Here we have used Eqs. (
155), (
156), and (
157). Similarly we obtain the ensemble average of
as follows,
which is rewritten as,
Here e define
. Therefore we obtain,
that is,
is the sum of the ensemble average of
and a term including
. In the standard extensive thermodynamical system,
is proportional to
, which goes to vanish in the thermodynamic limit,
, and Eq. (
161) reduces to the form
. However for non-extensive systems,
does not vanish even in the thermodynamic limit and
includes the extra term as in the second term of Eq. (
161).
By the similar procedure, we obtain
for general positive integer
n as follows,
Here
. Because
, we can take sum in the second term of (
162) from
,
.
By using
we can express
in terms of the partition function
Z, as follows,
By using the expression of
in (
162) with (
164), we define an entropy similar to the form of generalised entropy, as follows,
Especially in the cases of the three-parameter entropy
in (
29) and the four-parameter one
in (
27), we obtain
In this way, we may consider the cases of the five-parameter one
in (
30), and the six-parameter entropy
in (
28).
8.2. Grand Canonical Description
The grand canonical phase space density with chemical potential
in addition to Hamiltonian
H is defined by,
Again,
j runs from
to
. Because the particle number
N in a grand canonical ensemble fluctuates, a single microstate is characterised by
. In (
168),
is a grand canonical partition function given by,
Then the ensemble average of a microscopic quantity
in grand canonical description is given by,
For grand canonical ensemble, the Gibbs entropy symbolized by
is defined by,
Here
. Because
the following expression can be obtained,
We now define the following entropy in the grand canonical ensemble,
Then we also obtain the expressions corresponding to (
166).
In the grand canonical description, chemical potential corresponds to the work necessary to add a particle to the system by maintaining the equilibrium of the system. For the system to maintain the equilibrium, the particle must have a certain energy that is comparable to the mean energy of all the other particles.
9. Summary and Discussion
In this review paper, we have first discussed if the Hawking temperature [
1,
2] in (
7) (in the case of the Schwarzschild spacetime, we use (
8)) and the ADM mass [
15] could actually provide the thermodynamical temperature and energy uniquely.
We have considered these problems in
Section 2. The Hawking temperature is given by the thermal distribution of the Hawking radiation, which is generated only by the geometry of the object but does not depend on the details of the gravity theory. In this sense, the Hawking temperature is a unique possibility of the thermal temperature. About the ADM mass, if we consider the fall of the dust shell as a “thought experiment”, as described in
Section 3, by using energy conservation and Birkhoff’s theorem [
48], the thermodynamical energy must be given by the ADM mass. Then the thermodynamical relation
tells us that the entropy of the system should be the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy [
1,
3].
After that, in
Section 4, we have explicitly checked if the generalised entropies could yield both the Hawking temperature and the ADM mass correctly. In particular, we have considered the Rényi entropy (
12) [
51,
52,
53,
54], in
Section 4.1, and the Tsallis entropy (
18) [
7], in
Section 4.2. We have further investigated generalised entropies, like the four- and five-parameter generalised entropies, in (
27) and (
30) [
4,
5,
49,
50] in
Section 4.3.
Despite the uniqueness of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, we consider the possibility that the generalised entropies could become true thermodynamical entropies. One possibility, which we discussed in
Section 5, is given by hairy black holes because the energy density of the hair contributes non-trivially to the ADM mass. We have considered the case of the Reissner-Nordström black hole with the hair of the electric field, in
Section 5.1, and the case of Einstein’s gravity coupled with two scalar fields, in
Section 5.2. By using the case of two scalar fields, we could realise an arbitrarily given spherically symmetric spacetime, which can be time-dependent in general [
45]. The ghosts in the original model [
45] can be eliminated via some constraints [
62,
63,
64,
65]. After providing some examples, in
Section 5.2.2, in the framework of the model with the two scalar fields, we have proposed two mechanisms to produce the generalised entropies in BH thermodynamics. In one case,
Section 5.2.3, we have investigated the possibility that, as in Reissner-Nordström black hole, the horizon radius is not given only by the ADM mass and, therefore, the entropy becomes a non-trivial function of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, as shown for the Rényi entropy in (
87) and for arbitrary generalised entropies in (
88). We have also considered the case where the effective mass expressing the energy inside the horizon does not give the naive Hawking temperature, as in (
97) of
Section 5.2.4. We have shown how the Rényi entropy (
12), the Tsallis entropy (
18), the three-parameter generalised entropy
(
29), and the six-parameter entropy
(
28) are generated in Eqs. (
105), (
106), (
107), and (
108), respectively. Therefore, the inconsistency of new entropy proposals, with a Hawking temperature between the area law, could be avoided for the above black holes with one or more hair types.
The radii of the photon sphere and of the black hole shadow have been calculated, for the models found in
Section 5.2, in (
117) and (
118) and we obtained observational constraints on the parameters of the models in
Section 6. The parameters are consistent provided the BH is of the Schwarzschild kind. However, there is no direct relation between shadow and BH thermodynamics.
After that, we reviewed the generalised entropy description in the microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles. The origins of the generalised entropies were discussed in
Section 7 in the formulations of a microcanonical ensemble, in
Section 7.1, and of a canonical ensemble, in
Section 7.2. After that, we used the McLaughlin expansion for the generalised entropies in
Section 8 and possible interpretations were given.
So far no observations exist to indicate the possibility that the BH entropy should be given by any of the non-extensive ones. But, eventually, future observations of black hole shadows, primordial gravitational waves from primordial black holes, as well as cosmological ones, might reveal significant discrepancies with Einsteinian gravity predictions. That would open the window for modified gravity theories and generalised entropies, which could correspond to the ones considered here. Until such observational results are obtained, it is important to be ready and to consider what kind of novel physical effects could appear thanks to the generalised entropies. In parallel, we need to consider how a generalised entropy may follow from a more fundamental, possibly quantum, theory of gravity, like superstring theory. Finally, generalised statistics/entropy may provide new connections between BH thermodynamics, cosmology and information theory, for instance, via the Landauer principle [
74,
75].