Three-dimensional black hole entropy
arXiv:hep-th/0304211 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/029
Abstract
We discuss in detail the properties of gravity with a negative cosmological constant as viewed in Cherns-Simons theory on a line times a disc. We reanalyze the problem of computing the BTZ entropy, and show how the demand of unitarity and modular invariance of the boundary conformal field theory severely constrain proposals in this framework.
20 pages, 2 figures; v2: error corrected, conclusions changed