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arxiv hep-th/9303048 v2 pith:PRSQ2HSH submitted 1993-03-09 hep-th gr-qchep-lat

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The ground state density matrix for a massless free field is traced over the degrees of freedom residing inside an imaginary sphere; the resulting entropy is shown to be proportional to the area (and not the volume) of the sphere. Possible connections with the physics of black holes are discussed.

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