Abstract
Twisted sectors—solutions to the equations of motion with non-trivial monodromies—of three dimensional Euclidean gravity are studied. We argue that upon quantization this new sector of the theory provides the necessary (and no more) degrees of freedom to account for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of three-dimensional black holes.
- Received 19 April 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.104022
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