Hawking from Catalan

From MaRDI portal




Abstract: The Virasoro algebra determines all `graviton' matrix elements in AdS3/CFT2. We study the explicit exchange of any number of Virasoro gravitons between heavy and light CFT2 operators at large central charge. These graviton exchanges can be written in terms of new on-shell tree diagrams, organized in a perturbative expansion in hH/c, the heavy operator dimension divided by the central charge. The Virasoro vacuum conformal block, which is the sum of all the tree diagrams, obeys a differential recursion relation generalizing that of the Catalan numbers. We use this recursion relation to sum the on-shell diagrams to all orders, computing the Virasoro vacuum block. Extrapolating to large hH/c determines the Hawking temperature of a BTZ black hole in dual AdS3 theories.



Cites work


Cited in
(44)






This page was built for publication: Hawking from Catalan

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1638660)