Quantum Black Hole Entropy
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9801080,
title = {Quantum Black Hole Entropy},
author = {Romesh K. Kaul and Parthasarathi Majumdar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9801080},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, Revtex, some new references added