A CFT DESCRIPTION OF THE BTZ BLACK HOLE: TOPOLOGY VERSUS GEOMETRY (OR THERMODYNAMICS VERSUS STATISTICAL MECHANICS)

DOI10.1142/S0217751X07037111zbMath1200.83076arXivhep-th/0611194OpenAlexW3102228998MaRDI QIDQ3500172

Cosimo Stornaiolo, Giuseppe Maiella

Publication date: 3 June 2008

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we review the properties of the black hole entropy in the light of a general conformal field theory treatment. We find that the properties of horizons of the BTZ black holes in ADS_{3}, can be described in terms of an effective unitary CFT_{2} with central charge c=1 realized in terms of the Fubini-Veneziano vertex operators. It is found a relationship between the topological properties of the black hole solution and the infinite algebra extension of the conformal group in 2D, SU(2,2), i.e. the Virasoro Algebra, and its subgroup SL(2,Z) which generates the modular symmetry. Such a symmetry induces a duality for the black hole solution with angular momentum J eq 0. On the light of such a global symmetry we reanalyze the Cardy formula for CFT_{2} and its possible generalization to D>2 proposed by E. Verlinde.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611194

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryCardy-Verlinde formulathermodynamics of black holes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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