What we don't know about BTZ black hole entropy

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Publication:4699780

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/11/020zbMATH Open0946.83030arXivhep-th/9806026OpenAlexW3104114410MaRDI QIDQ4699780FDOQ4699780


Authors: Steven Carlip Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: With the recent discovery that many aspects of black hole thermodynamics can be effectively reduced to problems in three spacetime dimensions, it has become increasingly important to understand the ``statistical mechanics of the (2+1)-dimensional black hole of Banados, Teitelboim, and Zanelli (BTZ). Several conformal field theoretic derivations of the BTZ entropy exist, but none is completely satisfactory, and many questions remain open: there is no consensus as to what fields provide the relevant degrees of freedom or where these excitations live. In this paper, I review some of the unresolved problems and suggest avenues for their solution.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9806026




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