Boundary dynamics and the statistical mechanics of the 2+1 dimensional black hole

Details Boundary dynamics and the statistical mechanics of the 2+1 dimensional black hole Boundary dynamics and the statistical mechanics of the 2+1 dimensional black hole

1998-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802076v4

Nucl.Phys. B545 (1999) 340-370

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

31 pages, Latex. Minor corrections. To appear in Nucl.Phys.B

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00069-3

We calculate the density of states of the 2+1 dimensional BTZ black hole in the micro- and grand-canonical ensembles. Our starting point is the relation between 2+1 dimensional quantum gravity and quantised Chern-Simons theory. In the micro-canonical ensemble, we find the Bekenstein--Hawking entropy by relating a Kac-Moody algebra of global gauge charges to a Virasoro algebra with a classical central charge via a twisted Sugawara construction. This construction is valid at all values of the black hole radius. At infinity it gives the asymptotic isometries of the black hole, and at the horizon it gives an explicit form for a set of deformations of the horizon whose algebra is the same Virasoro algebra. In the grand-canonical ensemble we define the partition function by using a surface term at infinity that is compatible with fixing the temperature and angular velocity of the black hole. We then compute the partition function directly in a boundary Wess-Zumino-Witten theory, and find that we obtain the correct result only after we include a source term at the horizon that induces a non-trivial spin-structure on the WZW partition function.

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