贝肯斯坦从涉及黑洞的启发式观点导出此上限式。如果存在系统违反此不等式,也就是有太多的熵,则贝肯斯坦认为这将违反热力学第二定律。1995年,泰德·雅各布森证明了爱因斯坦场方程[a]可以借由假设贝肯斯坦上限和热力学定律的真实性而导出[2][3]。然而,虽然一些理论已经表明某种形式的上限必须存在,以使热力学和广义相对论相互一致,但该上限的确切表述一直是人们争论的一个问题[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]。
Ted Jacobson, "Thermodynamics of Spacetime: The Einstein Equation of State", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 75, Issue 7 (August 14, 1995), pp. 1260-1263, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.1260, Bibcode:1995PhRvL..75.1260J. Also at , April 4, 1995. Also available here (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) and here (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). Additionally available as an entry (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)in the Gravity Research Foundation's 1995 essay competition..
Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, 2002), pp. 173 and 175, ISBN 0-465-07836-2, .
Raphael Bousso, "Holography in general space-times", Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 1999, Issue 6 (June 1999), Art. No. 28, 24 pages, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1999/06/028, Bibcode:1999JHEP...06..028B. Mirror link. Also at , June 3, 1999.
Raphael Bousso, "A covariant entropy conjecture", Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 1999, Issue 7 (July 1999), Art. No. 4, 34 pages, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1999/07/004, Bibcode:1999JHEP...07..004B. Mirror link. Also at , May 24, 1999.
Raphael Bousso, "The holographic principle for general backgrounds", Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol. 17, No. 5 (March 7, 2000), pp. 997-1005, doi:10.1088/0264-9381/17/5/309, Bibcode:2000CQGra..17..997B. Also at , November 2, 1999.
Jacob D. Bekenstein, "Holographic bound from second law of thermodynamics", Physics Letters B, Vol. 481, Issues 2-4 (May 25, 2000), pp. 339-345, doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00450-0, Bibcode:2000PhLB..481..339B. Also at , March 8, 2000.
Raphael Bousso, Éanna É. Flanagan and Donald Marolf, "Simple sufficient conditions for the generalized covariant entropy bound", Physical Review D, Vol. 68, Issue 6 (September 15, 2003), Art. No. 064001, 7 pages, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.064001, Bibcode:2003PhRvD..68f4001B. Also at , May 19, 2003.
Jacob D. Bekenstein, "Black holes and information theory", Contemporary Physics, Vol. 45, Issue 1 (January 2004), pp. 31-43, doi:10.1080/00107510310001632523, Bibcode:2003ConPh..45...31B. Also at , November 9, 2003. Also at , November 9, 2003.
Frank J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, Bibcode:2005RPPh...68..897T.. Also released as "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), , April 24, 2007. Tipler gives a number of arguments for maintaining that Bekenstein's original formulation of the bound is the correct form. See in particular the paragraph beginning with "A few points ..." on p. 903 of the Rep. Prog. Phys. paper (or p. 9 of the arXiv version), and the discussions on the Bekenstein bound that follow throughout the paper.
Frank J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, Bibcode:2005RPPh...68..897T, p. 902. Mirror link. Also released as "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), , April 24, 2007, p. 8.
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking, Bantam Books, 1988.
- Jacob D. Bekenstein, "Bekenstein bound" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) , Scholarpedia, Vol. 3, No. 10 (2008), p. 7374, doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.7374.
- Jacob D. Bekenstein, "Bekenstein-Hawking entropy" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) , Scholarpedia, Vol. 3, No. 10 (2008), p. 7375, doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.7375.
- Jacob D. Bekenstein's website (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) at the Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which contains a number of articles on the Bekenstein bound.