1994/05/31 by Claudio Teitelboim, C. Teitelboim, Teitelboim, C.
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9405199
11 pages, no figures, use latex, IASSNS-HEP 93/35
arxiv created 1994/05/31 · openalex publication_date 1994/05/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review the insights into black hole entropy that arise from the formulation of gravitation theory in terms of dimensional continuation. The role of the horizon area and the deficit angle of a conical singularity at the horizon as canonically conjugate dynamical variables is analyzed. The path integral and the extension of the Wheeler-De Witt equation for black holes are discussed.