Black Hole Entropies and Algebras

Abstract: I will review the idea of black hole entropy, as originally discovered by Bekenstein and Hawking roughly half a century ago, and then explain how to interpret black hole entropy in terms of an appropriate algebra of observables.

mathematical physics

Audience: researchers in the discipline

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