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Title: Black Hole Entropy from Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Symmetry at the Horizon

Abstract

Near the horizon, the obvious symmetries of a black hole spacetime—the horizon-preserving diffeomorphisms—are enhanced to a larger symmetry group with a BMS3 algebra. Using dimensional reduction and covariant phase space techniques, I explore this augmented symmetry, and demonstrate that it is strong enough to determine the black hole entropy.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1595482
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1425234
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-91ER40674
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 120; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; black holes; quantum gravity; entropy

Citation Formats

Carlip, S. Black Hole Entropy from Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Symmetry at the Horizon. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.101301.
Carlip, S. Black Hole Entropy from Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Symmetry at the Horizon. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.101301
Carlip, S. Fri . "Black Hole Entropy from Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Symmetry at the Horizon". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.101301. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1595482.
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abstractNote = {Near the horizon, the obvious symmetries of a black hole spacetime—the horizon-preserving diffeomorphisms—are enhanced to a larger symmetry group with a BMS3 algebra. Using dimensional reduction and covariant phase space techniques, I explore this augmented symmetry, and demonstrate that it is strong enough to determine the black hole entropy.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.101301},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 10,
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Fri Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2018}
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