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Counting Black Hole Microstates at Future Null Infinity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-04-01 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose a black hole microstate counting method based on the canonical quantization of the asymptotic symmetries of a two-dimensional dilaton-gravity system at future null infinity. This dilaton-gravity is obtained from the s-wave reduction of an NN-dimensional Einstein gravity over a generic asymptotically flat black hole solution. We show that a Cardy-type formula leads to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. In this scenario, the quantized bulk degrees of freedom act as a source for the dual field theory operators living at future null infinity that are soft gravitons of the higher dimensional system, up to some gauge fixing.

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@article{arxiv.2503.03297,
  title  = {Counting Black Hole Microstates at Future Null Infinity},
  author = {Vahid Reza Shajiee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.03297},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure, accepted version to appear in Physics Letters B

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