Quantum black hole entropy

Kaul, Romesh K. ; Majumdar, Parthasarathi (1998) Quantum black hole entropy Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics, 439 (3-4). pp. 267-270. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

We derive an exact formula for the dimensionality of the Hilbert space of the boundary states of SU(2) Chern-Simons theory, which, according to the recent work of Ashtekar et al., leads to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a four dimensional Schwarzschild black hole. Our result stems from the relation between the (boundary) Hilbert space of the Chern-Simons theory with the space of conformal blocks of the Wess-Zumino model on the boundary 2-sphere.

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