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Four-dimensional entropy from three-dimensional gravity

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Speaker: Steve Carlip, UC Davis, Phys. Dept
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, Feb 11 2016, 3:10PM

In loop quantum gravity, the boundary term at a black hole horizon is formally equivalent to an action for three-dimensional gravity. I show how to use this equivalence to obtain the four-dimensional Bekenstein-Hawking entropy from well-understood computations of the entropy of the three-dimensional black hole.