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On the CFT duals for near-extremal black holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-08-03 v1

Abstract

We consider Kerr-Newman-AdS-dS black holes near extremality and work out the near-horizon geometry of these near-extremal black holes. We identify the exact U(1)_L x U(1)_R isometries of the near-horizon geometry and provide boundary conditions enhancing them to a pair of commuting Virasoro algebras. The conserved charges of the corresponding asymptotic symmetries are found to be well defined and non-vanishing and to yield central charges c_L\neq0 and c_R=0. The Cardy formula subsequently reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the black hole. This suggests that the near-extremal Kerr-Newman-AdS-dS black hole is holographically dual to a non-chiral two-dimensional conformal field theory.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2255,
  title  = {On the CFT duals for near-extremal black holes},
  author = {Jorgen Rasmussen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2255},
  year   = {2011}
}

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