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 -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.
Cite
@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