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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Main Authors: Alexei Kitaev, S. Josephine Suh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-05-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)198
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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.
ISSN:1029-8479