Effective Conformal Descriptions of Black Hole Entropy: A Review
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Black holes behave as thermodynamic objects, and it is natural to ask for an underlying "statistical mechanical" explanation in terms of microscopic degrees of freedom. I summarize attempts to describe these degrees of freedom in terms of a dual two-dimensional conformal field theory, emphasizing the generality of the Cardy formula and the consequent universal nature of the conformal description.
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@article{arxiv.1207.1488,
title = {Effective Conformal Descriptions of Black Hole Entropy: A Review},
author = {S. Carlip},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.1488},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in Proc. of the Sixth International School on Field Theory and Gravity, Petropolis, Brazil, 2012