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Semiclassical Corrections to the Cardy-Verlinde Formula of Kerr Black Holes
In this letter, we compute the corrections to the Cardy-Verlinde formula of
dimensional Kerr black hole. These corrections are considered within the
context of KKW analysis and arise as a result of the self-gravitational effect.
Then we show, one can taking into account the semiclassical corrections of the
Cardy-Verlinde entropy formula by just redefining the Virasoro operator
and the central charge .Comment: 8 page
A Possible Resolution of the Black Hole Information Puzzle
The problem of information loss is considered under the assumption that the
process of black hole evaporation terminates in the decay of the black hole
interior into a baby universe. We show that such theories can be decomposed
into superselection sectors labeled by eigenvalues of the third-quantized baby
universe field operator, and that scattering is unitary within each
superselection sector. This result relies crucially on the quantum-mechanical
variability of the decay time. It is further argued that the decay rate in the
black hole rest frame is necessarily proportional to , where
is the total entropy produced during the evaporation process,
entailing a very long-lived remnant.Comment: 15 pages, 3 uuencoded figures. Revised version contains some
notational simplification
Space Noncommutativity Corrections to the Cardy-Verlinde Formula
In this letter we compute the corrections to the Cardy-Verlinde formula of
Schwarzschild black holes. These corrections stem from the space
noncommutativity. Because the Schwarzschild black holes are non rotating, to
the first order of perturbative calculations, there is no any effect on the
properties of black hole due to the noncommutativity of space.Comment: 7 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
How many black holes fit on the head of a pin?
The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of certain black holes can be computed
microscopically in string theory by mapping the elusive problem of counting
microstates of a strongly gravitating black hole to the tractable problem of
counting microstates of a weakly coupled D-brane system, which has no event
horizon, and indeed comfortably fits on the head of a pin. We show here that,
contrary to widely held beliefs, the entropy of spherically symmetric black
holes can easily be dwarfed by that of stationary multi-black-hole
``molecules'' of the same total charge and energy. Thus, the corresponding
pin-sized D-brane systems do not even approximately count the microstates of a
single black hole, but rather those of a zoo of entropically dominant
multicentered configurations.Comment: 4 pages, fourth prize in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay
competition 200
On the timelike Liouville three-point function
In a recent paper, D. Harlow, J. Maltz, and E. Witten showed that a
particular proposal for the timelike Liouville three-point function, originally
due to Al. Zamolodchikov and to I. Kostov and V. Petkova, can actually be
computed by the original Liouville path integral evaluated on a new integration
cycle. Here, we discuss a Coulomb gas computation of the timelike three-point
function and show that an analytic extension of the Selberg type integral
formulas involved reproduces the same expression, including the adequate
normalization. A notable difference with the spacelike calculation is pointed
out.Comment: 11 pages. v2 comments and references added. Appropriate credit is
given to Ref. arXiv:hep-th/0512346, where the Coulomb gas computation of the
c<1 theory has already been discusse
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