Statistical mechanics of the (2+1)-dimensional black hole
- 15 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 51 (2) , 632-637
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.51.632
Abstract
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.Keywords
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