Near-horizon limit of the charged BTZ black hole and AdS(2) quantum gravity

Jun, 2008
11 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 07 (2008) 131
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We show that the 3D charged Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole solution interpolates between two different 2D AdS spacetimes: a near-extremal, near-horizon AdS_2 geometry with constant dilaton and U(1) field and an asymptotic AdS_2 geometry with a linear dilaton. Thus, the charged BTZ black hole can be considered as interpolating between the two different formulations proposed until now for AdS_2 quantum gravity. In both cases the theory is the chiral half of a 2D CFT and describes, respectively, Brown-Hennaux-like boundary deformations and near-horizon excitations. The central charge c_as of the asymptotic CFT is determined by 3D Newton constant G and the AdS length l, c_as=3l/G, whereas that of the near-horizon CFT also depends on the U(1) charge Q, c_nh \propto l Q/\sqrt G.
  • quantum gravity
  • anti-de Sitter
  • dimension: 2
  • black hole: BTZ
  • field theory: conformal
  • asymptotic behavior
  • dilaton
  • dimensional reduction