In this paper we continue investigations concerning the physical nature of the black hole entropy. In particular, in order to depict massless excitations (gravitons) leading to the one-quarter entropy area law, we use a mechanical statistical approach. As a first result, we obtain that, starting with a radiation field, we cannot exactly obtain the one-quarter factor in entropy area law. In the aforementioned framework, the correct black hole entropy is obtained only in the case where the internal temperature Ti, proportional to the Bekenstein-Hawking one, is such that Ti→0. As a consequence, according to other similar proposals in the literature, only a kind of Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) can exactly support the black hole entropy.
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