Research Seminar Series
: Conformal Symmetry for General Black Holes
Presented by Finn Larsen, Michigan
2 May 2012 13:00 in CM221
The boundary conditions of general black holes in asymptotically flat spacetimes can be modified such that a conformal symmetry emerges. The black holes with asymptotic geometry modified in this manner satisfy the equations of motion of minimal supergravity in one dimension more. Their symmetry suggests that a dual conformal field theory description exists that can account for the black hole entropy even in the case of black holes that are far from extremality.
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