1998/02/28 by Vijay Balasubramanian, V. Balasubramanian, Finn Larsen +1 · 3 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Anti-de Sitter space #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Boundary (topology) #Class (philosophy) #Conformal field theory #Conformal map #Conformal symmetry #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometry and complex manifolds #Supergravity #Symmetry (geometry) #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00334-4
published as Nucl.Phys. B528 (1998) 229-237 · 9 pages, LaTeX, small clarifications, references added, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
arxiv created 1998/04/24 · openalex publication_date 1998/09/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A large class of extremal and near-extremal four-dimensional black holes in M-theory feature near-horizon geometries that contain three-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces. Globally, these geometries are derived from AdS3 by discrete identifications. The microstates of such black holes can be counted by exploiting the conformal symmetry induced on the anti-de Sitter boundary, and the result agrees with the Bekenstein-Hawking area law. This approach, pioneered by Strominger, clarifies the physical nature of the black hole microstates. It also suggests that recent analyses of the relationship between boundary conformal field theory and supergravity can be extended to orbifolds of AdS spaces.