Analytic continuation of the rotating black hole state counting
Abstract
In loop quantum gravity, a spherical black hole can be described in terms of a Chern-Simons theory on a punctured 2-sphere. The sphere represents the horizon. The punctures are the edges of spin-networks in the bulk which cross the horizon and carry quanta of area. One can generalize this construction and model a rotating black hole by adding an extra puncture colored with the angular momentum J in the 2-sphere. We compute the entropy of rotating black holes in this model and study its semi-classical limit. After performing an analytic continuation which sends the Barbero-Immirzi parameter to +/- i, we show that the leading order term in the semi-classical expansion of the entropy reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking law independently of the value of J.
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@article{arxiv.1607.02380,
title = {Analytic continuation of the rotating black hole state counting},
author = {Jibril Ben Achour and Karim Noui and Alejandro Perez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02380},
year = {2016}
}