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Black Hole Entropy from Near-Horizon Microstates

arXiv:hep-th/9712251 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1998/02/009

Abstract

Black holes whose near-horizon geometries are locally, but not necessarily globally, AdS (three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space) are considered. Using the fact that quantum gravity on AdS is a conformal field theory, we microscopically compute the black hole entropy from the asymptotic growth of states. Precise numerical agreement with the Bekenstein-Hawking area formula for the entropy is found. The result pertains to any consistent quantum theory of gravity, and does not use string theory or supersymmetry.

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