Black hole entropy from spin one punctures

Abstract

A recent suggestion that the emission of a quantum of energy corresponding to the asymptotic value of quasinormal modes of a Schwarzschild black hole should be associated with the loss of spin one punctures from the black hole horizon fixes the Immirzi parameter to a definite value. We show that saturating the horizon with spin one punctures reproduces the earlier formula for the black hole entropy, including the ln (area) correction with the definite coefficient -3/2 for a large area.