Effectiveness of One-dimensional gas models for black holes
arXiv:hep-th/9801064 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00268-8
Abstract
A one-dimensional gas model has been constructed and shown to provide correct expressions for entropies for extremal and near-extremal BTZ black holes. Recently suggested boosting of black strings is used to compute the entropy for the Schwarzschild black hole also from this gas model.
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