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Sectors of solutions in three-dimensional gravity and Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We examine the connection between three dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant and two-dimensional CFT via the Chern-Simons formulation. A set of generalized spectral flow transformations are shown to yield new sectors of solutions. One implication is that the microscopic calculation of the entropy of the Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole is corrected by a multiplicative factor with the result that it saturates the Bekenstein-Hawking expression.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0110235,
  title  = {Sectors of solutions in three-dimensional gravity and Black Holes},
  author = {Jens Fjelstad and Stephen Hwang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0110235},
  year   = {2009}
}

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28 pages, LaTeX; references added