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The CFT-interpolating Black Hole in Three Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-12 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a new exact black hole solution in three dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to a single scalar field. This is one of the extended solutions of the BTZ black hole and has in fact AdS3\textrm{AdS}_3 geometries both at the spatial infinity and at the event horizon. An explicit derivation of Virasoro algebras for CFT2\textrm{CFT}_2 at the two boundaries is shown to be possible \`{a} la Brown and Henneaux's calculation. If we regard the scalar field as a running coupling in the dual two dimensional field theory, and its flow in the bulk as the "holographic" renormalization group flow, our black hole should interpolate the two CFT2\textrm{CFT}_2 living at the infinity and at the horizon. Following the Hamilton-Jacobi analysis by de Boer, Verlinde and Verlinde, we calculate the central charges cUVc_{\textrm{UV}} and cIRc_{\textrm{IR}} for the CFT2\textrm{CFT}_2 on the infinity and the horizon, respectively. We also confirm that the inequality cIR<cUVc_{\textrm{IR}} < c_{\textrm{UV}} is satisfied, which is consistent with the Zamolodchikov's c-theorem.

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@article{arxiv.0811.0910,
  title  = {The CFT-interpolating Black Hole in Three Dimensions},
  author = {K. Hotta and Y. Hyakutake and T. Kubota and T. Nishinaka and H. Tanida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0910},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures, references added

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