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Black Hole Entropy from Conformal Field Theory in Any Dimension
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Restricted to a black hole horizon, the ``gauge'' algebra of surface deformations in general relativity contains a Virasoro subalgebra with a calculable central charge. The fields in any quantum theory of gravity must transform accordingly, i.e., they must admit a conformal field theory description. Applying Cardy's formula for the asymptotic density of states, I use this result to derive the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. This method is universal---it holds for any black hole, and requires no details of quantum gravity---but it is also explicitly statistical mechanical, based on counting microscopic states.
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- Authors
- Carlip, S.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1999-04-05
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- 2828-2831
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- W2082823875
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- References
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- FWCI
- 19.65
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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