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Statistical Origin of Black Hole Entropy in Matrix Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The statistical entropy of black holes in M-theory is considered. Assuming Matrix theory is the discretized light-cone quantization of a theory with eleven-dimensional Lorentz invariance, we map the counting problem onto the original Gibbons-Hawking calculation of the thermodynamic entropy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9802173,
  title  = {Statistical Origin of Black Hole Entropy in Matrix Theory},
  author = {David A. Lowe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9802173},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, harvmac, (v2 References added, typo fixed), (v3 Some clarifying comments added.)