Ads(3)/CFT(2) to Ads(2)/CFT(1)
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-13 v4
Abstract
It has been suggested that the quantum generalization of the Wald entropy for an extremal black hole is the logarithm of the ground state degeneracy of a dual quantum mechanics in a fixed charge sector. We test this proposal for supersymmetric extremal BTZ black holes for which there is an independent definition of the quantum entropy as the logarithm of the degeneracy of appropriate states in the dual 1+1 dimensional superconformal field theory. We find that the two proposals agree. This analysis also suggests a possible route to deriving the OSV conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.0053,
title = {Ads(3)/CFT(2) to Ads(2)/CFT(1)},
author = {Rajesh Kumar Gupta and Ashoke Sen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0053},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LaTeX file, 14 pages; v2: references added; v3: comments and refernces added; v4: expanded discussion on the role of cut-off