Abstract
A detailed analysis of the spherically symmetric isolated horizon system is performed in terms of the connection formulation of general relativity. The system is shown to admit a manifestly invariant formulation where the (effective) horizon degrees of freedom are described by an Chern-Simons theory. This leads to a more transparent description of the quantum theory in the context of loop quantum gravity and modifications of the form of the horizon entropy.
- Received 21 June 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.044050
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