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arxiv: gr-qc/9409052 · v1 · submitted 1994-09-26 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

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The Statistical Mechanics of the (2+1)-Dimensional Black Hole

S. Carlip
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classification 🌀 gr-qc hep-th
keywords dimensionalblackholehorizonstatesappearancebreaksentropy
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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.

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