Abstract
The presence of a horizon breaks the gauge invariance of (2+1)-dimensional general relativity, leading to the appearance of new physical states at the horizon. I show that the entropy of the (2+1)-dimensional black hole can be obtained as the logarithm of the number of these microscopic states.
- Received 26 September 1994
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.51.632
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