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We consider a microscopic model of a stretched horizon of the Schwarzschild black hole, where the proper acceleration on the stretched horizon always stays the same, no matter what may happen to the mass of the hole. We construct the stretched horizon out of discrete constituents, each of them contributing to the stretched horizon an area, which is an integer times a constant. Assuming that the quantum states of the Schwarzschild black hole are encoded in the quantum states of its stretched horizon in a certain manner we obtain an explicit, analytic expression for the partition function of the hole from the point of view of an observer on its stretched horizon.Our partition function predicts, among other things, the Hawking effect, an provides it with a microscopic, statistical interpretation.

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