Statistical entropy of a BTZ black hole from loop quantum gravity

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Abstract: We compute the statistical entropy of a BTZ black hole in the context of three-dimensional Euclidean loop quantum gravity with a cosmological constant Lambda. As in the four-dimensional case, a quantum state of the black hole is characterized by a spin network state. Now however, the underlying colored graph Gamma lives in a two-dimensional spacelike surface Sigma, and some of its links cross the black hole horizon, which is viewed as a circular boundary of Sigma. Each link ell crossing the horizon is colored by a spin jell (at the kinematical level), and the length L of the horizon is given by the sum L=sumellLell of the fundamental length contributions Lell carried by the spins jell of the links ell. We propose an estimation for the number NextBTZGamma(L,Lambda) of the Euclidean BTZ black hole microstates (defined on a fixed graph Gamma) based on an analytic continuation from the case Lambda>0 to the case Lambda<0. In our model, we show that NextBTZGamma(L,Lambda) reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in the classical limit. This asymptotic behavior is independent of the choice of the graph Gamma provided that the condition L=sumellLell is satisfied, as it should be in three-dimensional quantum gravity.



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