Conformal Field Theory, Geometry, and Entropy

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1998-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9809021v3

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

16 pages, harvmac. v2: References corrected. v3: References corrected, discussion added regarding the relation between the cla

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In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, an explicit relation between the physical degrees of freedom of 2+1d gravity and the stress tensor of 1+1d conformal field theory is exhibited. Gravity encodes thermodynamic state variables of conformal field theory, but does not distinguish among different CFT states with the same expectation value for the stress tensor. Simply put, gravity is thermodynamics; gauge theory is statistical mechanics.

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