1. Central charges for AdS black holes.
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Perry, Malcolm and Rodriguez, Maria J
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KERR black holes , *COSMOLOGICAL constant , *DIFFEOMORPHISMS - Abstract
Nontrivial diffeomorphisms act on the horizon of a generic 4D black holes and create distinguishing features referred to as soft hair. Amongst these are a leftâ€"right pair of Virasoro algebras with associated charges that reproduce the Bekensteinâ€"Hawking entropy for Kerr black holes. In this paper we show that if one adds a negative cosmological constant, there is a similar set of infinitesimal diffeomorphisms that act non-trivially on the horizon. The algebra of these diffeomorphisms gives rise to a central charge. Adding a boundary counterterm, justified to achieve integrability, leads to well-defined central charges with c L = c R. The macroscopic area law for Kerr-AdS black holes follows from the assumption of a Cardy formula governing the black hole microstates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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