Entropy from conformal field theory at Killing horizons

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/10/322zbMATH Open0935.83023arXivgr-qc/9906126OpenAlexW2115693086MaRDI QIDQ4935683FDOQ4935683

Authors: Steven Carlip 

Publication date: 31 January 2000

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

Abstract: On a manifold with boundary, the constraint algebra of general relativity may acquire a central extension, which can be computed using covariant phase space techniques. When the boundary is a (local) Killing horizon, a natural set of boundary conditions leads to a Virasoro subalgebra with a calculable central charge. Conformal field theory methods may then be used to determine the density of states at the boundary. I consider a number of cases---black holes, Rindler space, de Sitter space, Taub-NUT and Taub-Bolt spaces, and dilaton gravity---and show that the resulting density of states yields the expected Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. The statistical mechanics of black hole entropy may thus be fixed by symmetry arguments, independent of details of quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9906126

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zbMATH Keywords

central extensionblack holesde Sitter spaceVirasoro algebraBekenstein-Hawking entropyTaub-NUTRindler spaceconstraint algebra of general relativityTaub-bolt

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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