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What We Don't Know about BTZ Black Hole Entropy

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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.

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Holography in flipped AdS/$\mathbb{Z}$: Another approach to dS holography

hep-th · 2026-08-09 · conditional · novelty 5.0

Quantum field theories in de Sitter space and in a signature-flipped compact-time spacetime (fAdS) are related by analytic continuation, and the proposed fAdS/fCFT holographic dictionary reproduces de Sitter horizon entropies from a Cardy formula.

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  • Holography in flipped AdS/$\mathbb{Z}$: Another approach to dS holography hep-th · 2026-08-09 · conditional · none · ref 11 · internal anchor

    Quantum field theories in de Sitter space and in a signature-flipped compact-time spacetime (fAdS) are related by analytic continuation, and the proposed fAdS/fCFT holographic dictionary reproduces de Sitter horizon entropies from a Cardy formula.