Quantum Liouville theory and BTZ black hole entropy

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/4/028MaRDI QIDQ4466984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yujun Chen

Publication date 8 June 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310234

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: In this paper I give an explicit conformal field theory description of (2+1)-dimensional BTZ black hole entropy. In the boundary Liouville field theory I investigate the reducible Verma modules in the elliptic sector, which correspond to certain irreducible representations of the quantum algebra U_q(sl_2) odot U_{hat{q}}(sl_2). I show that there are states that decouple from these reducible Verma modules in a similar fashion to the decoupling of null states in minimal models. Because ofthe nonstandard form of the Ward identity for the two-point correlation functions in quantum Liouville field theory, these decoupling states have positive-definite norms. The explicit counting from these states gives the desired Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in the semi-classical limit when q is a root of unity of odd order.

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