Statistical mechanics and black hole entropy

Sep, 1995
9 pages
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Report number:
  • UCD-95-30

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Abstract: (arXiv)
I review a new (and still tentative) approach to black hole thermodynamics that seeks to explain black hole entropy in terms of microscopic quantum gravitational boundary states induced on the black hole horizon.
  • black hole: entropy
  • black hole: horizon
  • quantum gravity
  • dimension: 3-4
  • field theory: scalar
  • Chern-Simons term
  • invariance: gauge
  • statistical mechanics