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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 256–259 (1998)

Statistical Origin of Black Hole Entropy in Matrix Theory

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David A. Lowe*
Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912

Received 3 March 1998; published in the issue dated 13 July 1998

The statistical entropy of black holes in matrix theory is considered. Assuming matrix theory is the discretized light-cone quantization of a theory with eleven-dimensional Lorentz invariance, we map the counting problem onto the original Gibbons-Hawking calculations of the thermodynamic entropy.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.256
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.256
PACS:
04.70.Dy, 11.25.Sq

*Electronic address: lowe@het.brown.edu