On neutral scalar radiation by a massive orbiting star in extremal Kerr‐Newman black hole

We extend the work of 1401.3746 about gravitational waves by a massive orbiting star in an extremal Kerr black hole to an extremal Kerr‐Newman black hole for the scalar radiation, and we still find that it has a CFT interpretation from Kerr‐Newman/CFT, because our scalar is neutral although the black hole is a charged one. When the charge of black hole is zero, we can get the result of 1401.3746, so we give a new evidence on Kerr‐Newman/CFT. In addition, we investigate on electromagnetic radiation with Kerr/CFT in detail which isn't given by 1401.3746.     

Entropy of Kaluza–Klein black hole from Kerr/CFT correspondence

We extend the recently proposed Kerr/CFT correspondence to examine the dual conformal field theory of four-dimensional Kaluza–Klein black hole in Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton theory. For the extremal Kaluza–Klein black hole, the central charge and temperature of the dual conformal field are calculated following the approach of Guica, Hartman, Song and Strominger. Meanwhile, we show that the microscopic entropy given by the Cardy formula agrees with Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of extremal Kaluza–Klein black hole. For the non-extremal case, by studying the near-region wave equation of a neutral massless scalar field, we investigate the hidden conformal symmetry of Kaluza–Klein black hole, and find the left and right temperatures of the dual conformal field theory. Furthermore, we find that the entropy of non-extremal Kaluza–Klein black hole is reproduced by Cardy formula.     

Astrophysical violations of the Kerr bound as a possible signature of string theory

In 4D general relativity, the angular momentum of a black hole is limited by the Kerr bound. We suggest that in string theory, this bound can be breached and compact black-hole-like objects can spin faster. Near such “superspinars”, the efficiency of energy transfer from the accreting matter to radiation can reach 100%, compared to the maximum efficiency of 42% of the extremal Kerr (or 6% of the Schwarzschild) black hole. Finding such superspinning objects as active galactic nuclei, GBHCs, or sources of gamma ray bursts, could be viewed as experimental support for string theory.     

Statistical entropies of extremal Kaluza-Klein AdS black holes in arbitrary dimensions

We have investigated the microscopic interpretations of the entropies for the four-dimensional extremal Kaluza-Klein AdS black hole and its higher-dimensional generalizations by using the Kerr/CFT correspondence. These newly-found Kaluza-Klein AdS black holes are charged rotating asymptotically AdS black hole solutions of gauged supergravity in four and higher dimensions. With suitable boundary conditions on the perturbations of the near-horizon geometry, it is shown that the asymptotic symmetry generators form a two-dimensional Virasoro algebra with a central term. By utilizing the central charge and the temperature of the dual conformal field theory, Cardy formula reproduces the expected Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. Directly working on the ordinary metrics of the extremal Kaluza-klein AdS black holes without taking the near-horizon limit, we also re-derive their microscopic entropies.     

Rotating black holes in dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory

We construct generalizations of the Kerr black holes by including higher-curvature corrections in the form of the Gauss-Bonnet density coupled to the dilaton. We show that the domain of existence of these Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-dilaton (EGBD) black holes is bounded by the Kerr black holes, the critical EGBD black holes, and the singular extremal EGBD solutions. The angular momentum of the EGBD black holes can exceed the Kerr bound. The EGBD black holes satisfy a generalized Smarr relation. We also compare their innermost stable circular orbits with those of the Kerr black holes and show the existence of differences which might be observable in astrophysical systems.     

Holography at an extremal De Sitter horizon

Rotating maximal black holes in four-dimensional de Sitter space, for which the outer event horizon coincides with the cosmological horizon, have an infinite near-horizon region described by the rotating Nariai metric. We show that the asymptotic symmetry group at the spacelike future boundary of the near-horizon region contains a Virasoro algebra with a real, positive central charge. This is evidence that quantum gravity in a rotating Nariai background is dual to a two-dimensional Euclidean conformal field theory. These results are related to the Kerr/CFT correspondence for extremal black holes, but have two key differences: one of the black hole event horizons has been traded for the cosmological horizon, and the near-horizon geometry is a fiber over dS₂ rather than AdS₂.     

On the black hole limit of rotating discs and rings

Solutions to Einstein’s field equations describing rotating fluid bodies in equilibrium permit parametric (i.e. quasi-stationary) transitions to the extreme Kerr solution (outside the horizon). This has been shown analytically for discs of dust and numerically for ring solutions with various equations of state. From the exterior point of view, this transition can be interpreted as a (quasi) black hole limit. All gravitational multipole moments assume precisely the values of an extremal Kerr black hole in the limit. In the present paper, the way in which the black hole limit is approached is investigated in more detail by means of a parametric Taylor series expansion of the exact solution describing a rigidly rotating disc of dust. Combined with numerical calculations for ring solutions our results indicate an interesting universal behaviour of the multipole moments near the black hole limit.     

Notes on the hidden conformal symmetry in the near horizon geometry of the Kerr black hole

Toward the Kerr/CFT correspondence for the generic non-extremal Kerr black hole, the analysis of scattering amplitudes by near extremal Kerr provides a clue. This pursuit reveals a hidden conformal symmetry in the low frequency wave equation for a scalar field in a certain spacetime region referred to as the near region. For extremal case, the near region is expected to be the near horizon region in which the correspondence via the asymptotic symmetry is studied. We investigate the hidden conformal symmetry in the near horizon limit and consider the relation between the hidden conformal symmetry and the asymptotic symmetry in the near horizon limit. By using an appropriate definition of the quasi-local charge, we obtain the deviation of the entropy from the extremality.     

Kerr Black Hole in the Background of the Einstein Universe

The Vaidya-Einstein-Kerr (VEK) black hole which represents the spacetime of the Kerr black hole in a non-vacuum, asymptotically non-flat background is investigated. The energy-momentum tensor corresponding to this spacetime satisfies reasonable energy conditions. We study several properties of this black hole and compare and contrast them with those of the Kerr black hole. We investigate the effect of the background on the geometry of the event horizon by computing the equatorial and polar circumferences and determining the oblateness of the horizon. We find that the surface area of the VEK black hole gets nontrivially coupled to rotation in sharp contrast to the Kerr case. We show that the angular velocity of the VEK horizon goes up significantly as the background influence increases. By using the `equatorial tangential velocity' of the VEK horizon we classify the horizon and define the `limiting black hole' a generalization that contains the extreme Kerr black hole as a special case. Finally we investigate the Gaussian curvature and establish conditions for global embedding of the VEK black hole in Euclidean space.     

Scaling Laws at the Extremal Limit of Dilaton Black Holes

The thermodynamics of an arbitrary dimensional charged dilaton black hole is investigated. We find that the extremal limit of the black hole is a critical point and the entropy of the black hole is a homogeneous function. Thus the scaling laws hold at the critical point and a phase transition is expected to appear from the extremal to nonextremal dilaton black holes. Some relevant critical exponents are given and they depend manifestly on the content of the theory.     

Entropy and supersymmetry of D-dimensional extremal electric black holes versus string states

Following the work of Sen, we consider the correspondence between extremal black holes and string states in the context of the entropy. We obtain and study properties of electrically charged black hole backgrounds of tree level heterotic string theory compactified on a p-dimensional torus, for D = (10 − p) = 4,…,9. We study in particular a one-parameter extremal class of these black holes, the members of which are shown to be supersymmetric. We find that the entropy of such an extremal black hole, when calculated at the stringy stretched horizon, scales in such a way that it can be identified with the entropy of the elementary string state with the corresponding quantum numbers.     

Kerr Black Hole Entropy and its Quantization

By constructing the four-dimensional phase space based on the observable physical quantity of Kerr black hole and gauge transformation, the Kerr black hole entropy in the phase space was obtained. Then considering the corresponding mechanical quantities as operators and making the operators quantized, entropy spectrum of Kerr black hole was obtained. Our results show that the Kerr black hole has the entropy spectrum with equal intervals, which is in agreement with the idea of Bekenstein. In the limit of large event horizon, the area of the adjacent event horizon of the black hole have equal intervals. The results are in consistent with the results based on the loop quantum gravity theory by Dreyer et al.     

Kerr黑洞的量子面积谱及微黑洞的最小质量

Kerr黑洞仅含有两个参量M和J.把M和J视为广义坐标,并将M,J和它们的共轭量构成四维相空 间，通过规范变换得到了Kerr黑洞的量子面积谱.由此给出了Schwarzschild黑洞的 最小质量. 关键词： 黑洞 量子面积谱 共轭 规范变换     

Superradiance resonance cavity outside rapidly rotating black holes

We discuss the late-time behavior of a dynamically perturbed Kerr black hole. We present analytic results for near-extreme Kerr black holes that show that the large number of virtually undamped quasinormal modes that exist for nonzero values of the azimuthal eigenvalue m combine in such a way that the field oscillates with an amplitude that decays as 1/t at late times. This prediction is verified using numerical time evolutions of the Teukolsky equation. We argue that the observed behavior can be understood in terms of the presence of a "superradiance resonance cavity" immediately outside the black hole, and discuss whether it may be relevant for astrophysical black holes.     

Distinguishing between Kerr and rotating JNW space-times via frame dragging and tidal effects

We investigate two physical quantities that might observationally distinguish between Kerr black holes and rotating naked singularities. These are the Lense–Thirring precession frequency as measured by a Copernican observer, and tidal forces. We establish strong enhancement for both these quantities due to a Janis–Newman–Winicour naked singularity background, as compared to the Kerr case. We first show that the precession frequency of a test gyroscope at a given radius can be enhanced by almost an order of magnitude in the background of the naked singularity, as compared to the Kerr black hole. We then show that a critical mass for celestial objects below which these disintegrate due to tidal forces might increase by more than an order of magnitude in the naked singularity background, compared to the black hole. Our results complement the existing ones in the literature regarding differences in observable quantities in such backgrounds, and might be of significance in futuristic experiments.     

Extremal Kerr black hole/CFT correspondence in the five-dimensional Gödel universe

We extend the method of Kerr/CFT correspondence recently proposed in arXiv:0809.4266 [hep-th] to the extremal (charged) Kerr black hole embedded in the five-dimensional Gödel universe. With the aid of the central charges in the Virasoro algebra and the Frolov–Thorne temperatures, together with the use of the Cardy formula, we have obtained the microscopic entropies that precisely agree with the ones macroscopically calculated by Bekenstein–Hawking area law.     

On EVH black hole solution in heterotic string theory

We study the near horizon geometry of charged rotating black holes in toroidal compactifications of heterotic string theory. We analyze the extremal vanishing horizon (EVH) limit for these black hole solutions and we will show that the near horizon geometry develops an AdS₃ throat. Furthermore, we will show that the near horizon limit of near EVH black holes has a BTZ factor. We also comment on the CFT dual to this near horizon geometry.     

Extremal static AdS black hole/CFT correspondence in gauged supergravities

A recently proposed holographic duality allows the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of extremal rotating black holes to be calculated microscopically, by applying the Cardy formula to the two-dimensional chiral CFTs associated with certain reparameterisations of azimuthal angular coordinates in the solutions. The central charges are proportional to the angular momenta of the black hole, and so the method degenerates in the case of static (non-rotating) black holes. We show that the method can be extended to encompass such charged static extremal AdS black holes by using consistent Kaluza–Klein sphere reduction ansatze to lift them to exact solutions in the low-energy limits of string theory or M-theory, where the electric charges become reinterpreted as angular momenta associated with internal rotations in the reduction sphere. We illustrate the procedure for the examples of extremal charged static AdS black holes in four, five, six and seven dimensions.