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In discussing fundamentals of general-relativistic irreversible continuum thermodynamics, this theory is shown to be characterized by the feature that no thermodynamical degrees of freedom are ascribed to gravitation. However, accepting that black hole thermodynamics seems to oppose this harmlessness of gravitation one is called on to consider other approaches. Therefore, in brief some gravitational and thermodynamical alternatives are reviewed.
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Borzeszkowski, HH.v., Chrobok, T. Are There Thermodynamical Degrees of Freedom of Gravitation?. Foundations of Physics 33, 529–539 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023771817145
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