Twisted sectors in three-dimensional gravity
Maximo Banados
TL;DR
This paper explores twisted sectors in 3D Euclidean gravity, proposing they provide the essential degrees of freedom needed to explain black hole entropy upon quantization.
Contribution
It introduces and analyzes twisted sectors with non-trivial monodromies as a novel aspect of 3D gravity relevant to black hole entropy.
Findings
Twisted sectors contribute to the quantum state count.
They account for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
No additional degrees of freedom are necessary.
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.
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