Triangle Seminars
Thursday, 7 Jul 2011
The Kerr/CFT correspondence
Wei Song
(Harvard)
Abstract:
The Kerr/CFT correspondence is the conjectured holographic duality between Kerr black holes and a two dimensional conformal field theory. The original conjecture applies for four dimensional extremal Kerr, but later there are various generalizations in many directions.
In this talk, I will first review how Kerr/CFT works for extremal, near-extremal and non-extremal Kerr black holes. Then I will describe some recent developments on the microscopic understanding of Kerr/CFT by studying some five dimensional examples.
The Kerr/CFT correspondence is the conjectured holographic duality between Kerr black holes and a two dimensional conformal field theory. The original conjecture applies for four dimensional extremal Kerr, but later there are various generalizations in many directions.
In this talk, I will first review how Kerr/CFT works for extremal, near-extremal and non-extremal Kerr black holes. Then I will describe some recent developments on the microscopic understanding of Kerr/CFT by studying some five dimensional examples.
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