Statistical mechanics of a two-dimensional black hole
Abstract The dynamics of a nearly-AdS2 spacetime with boundaries is reduced to that of two particles in the anti-de Sitter space. We determine the class of physically meaningful wavefunctions, and prescribe the statistical mechanics of a black hole. We demonstrate how wavefunctions for a two-sided b...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2019-05-01
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Series: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)198 |
Summary: | Abstract The dynamics of a nearly-AdS2 spacetime with boundaries is reduced to that of two particles in the anti-de Sitter space. We determine the class of physically meaningful wavefunctions, and prescribe the statistical mechanics of a black hole. We demonstrate how wavefunctions for a two-sided black hole and a regularized notion of trace can be used to construct thermal partition functions, and more generally, arbitrary density matrices. We also obtain correlation functions of external operators. |
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ISSN: | 1029-8479 |