Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: We propose that 3d black holes are an ensemble of tensionless null string states. These microstates typically have non-zero winding. We evaluate their partition function in the limit of large excitation numbers and show that their combinatorics reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and its semiclassical logarithmic corrections.
Source: SciPost Physics
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funders: Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Austrian Science Fund, Universität Wien, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Iran National Science Foundation, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Technische Universität Wien, Science and Engineering Research Board, École Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay
OpenAlex ID: W4307073538