Kerr/CFT Correspondence in Diverse Dimensions
Nov, 200819 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 04 (2009) 054
e-Print:
- 0811.2225 [hep-th]
Report number:
- MIFP-08-29
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Abstract: (arXiv)
It was proposed recently that the near-horizon states of an extremal four-dimensional Kerr black hole could be identified with a certain chiral conformal field theory whose Virasoro algebra arises as an asymptotic symmetry algebra of the near-horizon Kerr geometry. Supportive evidence for the proposed duality came from the equality of the microscopic entropy of the CFT, calculated by means of the Cardy formula, and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the extremal Kerr black hole. In this paper we examine the proposed Kerr/CFT correspondence in a broader context. In particular, we show that the microscopic entropy and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy agree also for the extremal Kerr-AdS metric in four dimensions, and also for the extremal Kerr-AdS metrics in dimensions 5, 6 and 7. General formulae for all higher dimensions are also presented.- field theory: conformal
- black hole: Kerr
- algebra: Virasoro
- entropy
- higher-dimensional
- space-time: anti-de Sitter
- duality
- AdS/CFT correspondence
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