The Statistical mechanics of the (2+1)-dimensional black hole
Sep, 199411 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 51 (1995) 632-637
e-Print:
- gr-qc/9409052 [gr-qc]
Report number:
- UCD-94-32,
- NI-94011
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Abstract: (desy)
The presence of a horizon breaks the gauge invariance of (2+1)-dimensional general relativity, leading to the appearance of new physical states at the horizon. I show that the entropy of the (2+1)-dimensional black hole can be obtained as the logarithm of the number of these microscopic states.- black hole: horizon
- dimension: 3
- entropy
- statistical mechanics
- symmetry breaking: gauge
- Chern-Simons term
- Wess-Zumino-Witten model
- boundary condition
- general relativity
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