# Schwarzschild black hole as a grand canonical ensemble

## Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Prof. Jacob Bekenstein for his guidance and support during the course of this work. It is also a pleasure to thank A. E. Mayo for a lot of help and S. Hod and L. Sriramkumar for helpful discussions. This research was supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation, established by the Israel National Academy of Sciences.