Edge States and Entropy of 2d Black Holes

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1996-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9612033v1

Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 7651-7665

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

36 pages, Latex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7651

In several recent publications Carlip, as well as Balachandran, Chandar and Momen, have proposed a statistical mechanical interpretation for black hole entropy in terms of ``would be gauge'' degrees of freedom that become dynamical on the boundary to spacetime. After critically discussing several routes for deriving a boundary action, we examine their hypothesis in the context of generic 2-D dilaton gravity. We first calculate the corresponding statistical mechanical entropy of black holes in 1+1 deSitter gravity, which has a gauge theory formulation as a BF-theory. Then we generalize the method to dilaton gravity theories that do not have a (standard) gauge theory formulation. This is facilitated greatly by the Poisson-Sigma-model formulation of these theories. It turns out that the phase space of the boundary particles coincides precisely with a symplectic leaf of the Poisson manifold that enters as target space of the Sigma-model. Despite this qualitatively appealing picture, the quantitative results are discouraging: In most of the cases the symplectic leaves are non-compact and the number of microstates yields a meaningless infinity. In those cases where the particle phase space is compact - such as, e.g., in the Euclidean deSitter theory - the edge state degeneracy is finite, but generically it is far too small to account for the semiclassical Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.

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