Effective Conformal Descriptions of Black Hole Entropy: A Review
Jul, 20129 pages
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- AIP Conf.Proc. 1483 (2012) 1, 54-62
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- , 54-62
- ISFTG 2012
- Published: Sep 24, 2012
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- 1207.1488 [gr-qc]
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Black holes behave as thermodynamic objects, and it is natural to ask for an underlying “statistical mechanical” explanation in terms of microscopic degrees of freedom. I summarize attempts to describe these degrees of freedom in terms of a dual two-dimensional conformal field theory, emphasizing the generality of the Cardy formula and the consequent universal nature of the conformal description.Note:
- To appear in Proc. of the Sixth International School on Field Theory and Gravity, Petropolis, Brazil, 2012
- 04.70.Dy
- 05.70.Ce
- 05.20.-y
- black holes
- conformal field theory
- entropy
- statistical mechanics
- field theory: conformal
- black hole: entropy
- dimension: 2
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