McGill.CA / Science / Department of Physics

Informal Pizza Seminar

Higher derivative corrections to the Kerr/CFT correspondence

Yuji Tachikawa

Institute for Advanced Study

We study the asymptotic Virasoro symmetry of the near-horizon geometry of extremal Kerr black holes in gravity theories with higher-derivative corrections. The main result is that its central charge correctly reproduces the entropy formula of Wald.

Tuesday, March 24th 2009, 13:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326