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The Entropy for General Extremal Black Holes
We use the Kerr/CFT correspondence to calculate the entropy for all known
extremal stationary and axisymmetric black holes. This is done with the help of
two ansatzs that are general enough to cover all such known solutions.
Considering only the contribution from the Einstein-Hilbert action to the
central charge(s), we find that the entropy obtained by using Cardy's formula
exactly matches with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.Comment: Minor corrections, section 5 refined, references added
Near Horizon of 5D Rotating Black Holes from 2D Perspective
We study the CFT dual to five dimensional extremal rotating black holes, by
investigating the two dimensional perspective of their near horizon geometry.
From two dimensional point of view, we show that both gauge fields, related to
the two rotations, appear in the same manner in the asymptotic symmetry and in
the associated central charge. We find that, our results are in perfect
agreement with the generalization of Kerr/CFT approach to five dimensional
extremal rotating black holes.Comment: The last version to appear in the European Physical Journal
On the General Kerr/CFT Correspondence in Arbitrary Dimensions
We study conformal symmetries on the horizon of a general stationary and
axisymmetric black hole. We find that there exist physically reasonable
boundary conditions that uniquely determine a set of symmetry generators, which
form one copy of the Virasoro algebra. For extremal black holes, Cardy's
formula reproduces exactly the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.Comment: 17 page
Kerr-CFT From Black-Hole Thermodynamics
We analyze the near-horizon limit of a general black hole with two commuting
killing vector fields in the limit of zero temperature. We use black hole
thermodynamics methods to relate asymptotic charges of the complete spacetime
to those obtained in the near-horizon limit. We then show that some
diffeomorphisms do alter asymptotic charges of the full spacetime, even though
they are defined in the near horizon limit and, therefore, count black hole
states. We show that these conditions are essentially the same as considered in
the Kerr/CFT corresponcence. From the algebra constructed from these
diffeomorphisms, one can extract its central charge and then obtain the black
hole entropy by use of Cardy's formula.Comment: 19 pages, JHEP3, no figures. V2: References added, small typos fixe
Holographic Dual of Linear Dilaton Black Hole in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion Gravity
Motivated by the recently proposed Kerr/CFT correspondence, we investigate
the holographic dual of the extremal and non-extremal rotating linear dilaton
black hole in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion Gravity. For the case of extremal
black hole, by imposing the appropriate boundary condition at spatial infinity
of the near horizon extremal geometry, the Virasoro algebra of conserved
charges associated with the asymptotic symmetry group is obtained. It is shown
that the microscopic entropy of the dual conformal field given by Cardy formula
exactly agrees with Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of extremal black hole. Then, by
rewriting the wave equation of massless scalar field with sufficient low energy
as the SL(2, R)SL(2, R) Casimir operator, we find the hidden
conformal symmetry of the non-extremal linear dilaton black hole, which implies
that the non-extremal rotating linear dilaton black hole is holographically
dual to a two dimensional conformal field theory with the non-zero left and
right temperatures. Furthermore, it is shown that the entropy of non-extremal
black hole can be reproduced by using Cardy formula.Comment: 15 pages, no figure, published versio
The dynamics of apparent horizons in Robinson-Trautman spacetimes
We present an alternative scheme of finding apparent horizons based on
spectral methods applied to Robinson-Trautman spacetimes. We have considered
distinct initial data such as representing the spheroids of matter and the
head-on collision of two non-rotating black holes. The evolution of the
apparent horizon is presented. We have obtained in some cases a mass gap
between the final Bondi and apparent horizon masses, whose implications were
briefly commented in the light of the thermodynamics of black holes.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
The RN/CFT Correspondence Revisited
We reconsidered the quantum gravity description of the near horizon extremal
Reissner-Nordstr{\o}m black hole in the viewpoint of the AdS/CFT
correspondence. We found that, for pure electric case, the right moving central
charge of dual 1D CFT is which is different from the previous result of left moving sector obtained by warped AdS/CFT description. We
discussed the discrepancy in these two approaches and examined novel properties
of our result.Comment: revtex4, 16 pages, sign mistakes corrected, references include
New Near Horizon Limit in Kerr/CFT
The extremal Kerr black hole with the angular momentum J is conjectured to be
dual to CFT with central charges c_L=c_R=12J. However, the central charge in
the right sector remains to be explicitly derived so far. In order to
investigate this issue, we introduce new near horizon limits of (near) extremal
Kerr and five-dimensional Myers-Perry black holes. We obtain Virasoro algebras
as asymptotic symmetries and calculate the central charges associated with
them. One of them is equivalent to that of the previous studies, and the other
is non-zero, but still the order of near extremal parameter. Redefining the
algebras to take the standard form, we obtain a finite value as expected by the
Kerr/CFT correspondence.Comment: 25 pages, minor changes, references adde
The EG95 Antigen of Echinococcus spp. Contains Positively Selected Amino Acids, which May Influence Host Specificity and Vaccine Efficacy
Echinococcosis is a worldwide zoonotic parasitic disease of humans and various herbivorous domestic animals (intermediate hosts) transmitted by the contact with wild and domestic carnivores (definitive hosts), mainly foxes and dogs. Recently, a vaccine was developed showing high levels of protection against one parasite haplotype (G1) of Echinococcus granulosus, and its potential efficacy against distinct parasite variants or species is still unclear. Interestingly, the EG95 vaccine antigen is a secreted glycosylphosphatydilinositol (GPI)-anchored protein containing a fibronectin type III domain, which is ubiquitous in modular proteins involved in cell adhesion. EG95 is highly expressed in oncospheres, the parasite life cycle stage which actively invades the intermediate hosts. After amplifying and sequencing the complete CDS of 57 Echinococcus isolates belonging to 7 distinct species, we uncovered a large amount of genetic variability, which may influence protein folding. Two positively selected sites are outside the vaccine epitopes, but are predicted to alter protein conformation. Moreover, phylogenetic analyses indicate that EG95 isoform evolution is convergent with regard to the number of beta-sheets and alpha-helices. We conclude that having a variety of EG95 isoforms is adaptive for Echinococcus parasites, in terms of their ability to invade different hosts, and we propose that a mixture of isoforms could possibly maximize vaccine efficacy
Hidden Conformal Symmetry of the Reissner-Nordstr{\o}m Black Holes
Motivated by recent progresses in the holographic descriptions of the Kerr
and Reissner-Nordstr{\o}m (RN) black holes, we explore the hidden conformal
symmetry of nonextremal uplifted 5D RN black hole by studying the near horizon
wave equation of a massless scalar field propagating in this background.
Similar to the Kerr black hole case, this hidden symmetry is broken by the
periodicity of the associated angle coordinate in the background geometry, but
the results somehow testify the dual CFT description of the nonextremal RN
black holes. The duality is further supported by matching of the entropies and
absorption cross sections calculated from both CFT and gravity sides.Comment: 14 pages, no figur
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