Black Holes as Atoms

Stationary spacetimes containing a black hole have several properties akin to those of atoms. For instance, such spacetimes have only three classical degrees of freedom, or observables, which may be taken to be the mass, the angular momentum, and the electric charge of the hole. There are several arguments supporting a proposal originally made by Bekenstein that quantization of these classical degrees of freedom gives an equal spacing for the horizon area spectrum of black holes. We review some of these arguments and introduce a specific Hamiltonian quantum theory of black holes. Our Hamiltonian quantum theory gives, among other things, a discrete spectrum for the classical observables, and it produces an area spectrum which is closely related to Bekenstein's proposal. We also present a foamlike model of horizons of spacetime. In our model spacetime horizon consists of microscopic Schwarzschild black holes. Applying our Hamiltonian approach to this model we find that the entropy of any horizon is one quarter of its area.     

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.     

Quantization of the Interior Schwarzschild Black Hole

We study a Hamiltonian quantum formalism of a spherically symmetric space-time which can be identified with the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole. The phase space of this model is spanned by two dynamical variables and their conjugate momenta. It is shown that the classical Lagrangian of the model gives rise the interior metric of a Schwarzschild black hole. We also show that the mass of such a system is a Dirac observable and then by quantization of the model by Wheeler-DeWitt approach and constructing suitable wave packets we get the mass spectrum of the black hole.     

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.     

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.     

Extremal black hole entropy from conformal string sigma model

We present a string-theory derivation of the semiclassical entropy of extremal dyonic black holes in the approach based on the conformal sigma model (NS-NS embedding of the classical solution). We demonstrate (resolving some puzzles existing in previous related discussions) that the degeneracy responsible for the entropy is due to string oscillations in four transverse dimensions ‘intrinsic’ to the black hole: four non-compact directions of the D = 5 black hole case and three non-compact and one compact (responsible for embedding of magnetic charges) dimensions in the D = 4 black hole case. Oscillations in other compact internal dimensions give subleading contributions to statistical entropy in the limit when all charges are large. The dominant term in the statistical entropy is thus universal (i.e. is the same in type II and heterotic string theory) and agrees with the Bekenstein-Hawking expression.     

Different Quantum Entropies for Two Kinds of Extreme Two-Dimensional Lowe-Strominger Black Holes

It is shown that both the classical entropy of two-dimensional extremal LoweStrominger black hole and the quantum entropy of the scalar field in the background of this black hole are different by using Hawking's treatment as wel as Zaslavskii's treatment respectively. This result supports our previous suggestion that there are two kinds of extreme black holes in the nature. A new divergent term emerges in the quantum entropy in Zaslavskii's treatment and its physical meaning has been discussed.     

Curvature-corrected dilatonic black holes and black hole—string transition

We investigate extremal charged black hole solutions in the four-dimensional string frame Gauss-Bonnet gravity with the Maxwell field and the dilaton. Without curvature corrections, the extremal electrically charged dilatonic black holes have singular horizon and zero Bekenstein entropy. When the Gauss-Bonnet term is switched on, the horizon radius expands to a finite value provided curvature corrections are strong enough. Below a certain threshold value of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling the extremal black hole solutions cease to exist. Since decreasing Gauss-Bonnet coupling corresponds to decreasing string coupling g _s , the situation can tentatively be interpreted as classical indication on the black hole—string transition. Previously the extremal dilaton black holes were studied in the Einstein-frame version of the Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Here we work in the string frame version of the theory with the S-duality symmetric dilaton function as required by the heterotic string theory. The article is published in the original.     

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.     

Logarithmic corrections to $${\mathcal{N} = 2}$$ black hole entropy: an infrared window into the microstates

Logarithmic corrections to the extremal black hole entropy can be computed purely in terms of the low energy data—the spectrum of massless fields and their interaction. The demand of reproducing these corrections provides a strong constraint on any microscopic theory of quantum gravity that attempts to explain the black hole entropy. Using quantum entropy function formalism we compute logarithmic corrections to the entropy of half BPS black holes in N=2{{\mathcal N}=2} supersymmetric string theories. Our results allow us to test various proposals for the measure in the OSV formula, and we find agreement with the measure proposed by Denef and Moore if we assume their result to be valid at weak topological string coupling. Our analysis also gives the logarithmic corrections to the entropy of extremal Reissner–Nordstrom black holes in ordinary Einstein–Maxwell theory.     

Weak Gravity Conjecture and extremal black holes

Motivated by the desire to improve our understanding of the Weak Gravity Conjecture, we compute the one-loop correction of charged particles to the geometry and entropy of extremal black holes in 4D. We use the entropy function formalism to extend previous analysis that dealt with neutral particles, and obtain the corrections to the horizon entropy for different regimes of black hole masses. These corrections are small in general. They are furthermore reduced when supersymmetry is present, and disappear in N = 4 supergravity. We provide some speculative arguments that in a theory with only sub-extremal particles, classical Reissner-Nordstrom black holes actually possess an infinite microcanonical entropy, though only a finite amount is visible to an external observer, as shown by the horizon entropy computation.     

Weak cosmic censorship conjecture in BTZ black holes with scalar fields

The weak cosmic censorship conjecture in the near-extremal BTZ black hole has been tested using test particles and fields.It has been claimed that such a black hole can be overspun.In this paper,we review the thermodynamics and weak cosmic censorship conjecture in BTZ black holes using the scattering of a scalar field.The first law of thermodynamics in the non-extremal BTZ black hole is recovered.For the extremal and near-extremal black holes,due to the divergence of the variation of entropy,we test the weak cosmic censorship conjecture by evaluating the minimum of the function f,and find that both the extremal and near-extremal black holes cannot be overspun.     

Conformally invariant thermodynamics of a Maxwell-Dilaton black hole

The thermodynamics of Maxwell-Dilaton black holes has been extensively studied. It has served as a fertile ground to test ideas about temperature through various definitions of surface gravity. In this paper, we make an independent analysis of this black hole solution in both, Einstein and Jordan, frames. We explore a set of definitions for the surface gravity and observe the different predictions they make for the near extremal configuration of this black hole. Finally, motivated by the singularity structure in the interior of the event horizon, we use a holographic argument to remove the micro-states from the disconnected region of this solution. In this manner, we construct a frame independent entropy from which we obtain a temperature which agrees with the standard results in the non-extremal regime, and has a desirable behaviour around the extremal configurations according to the third law of black hole mechanics.     

Near extremal Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole area spectrum from quasi-normal modes

Using the quasi-normal modes frequency of near extremal Schwar-zschild-de Sitter black holes, we obtain area and entropy spectrum for the black hole horizon. By using Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization for an adiabatic invariant I = ∫dEω(E), where E is the energy of the system and ω(E) is the vibrational frequency, we arrive at an equally spaced mass spectrum. In the other terms, we extend directly the Kunstatter’s approach kun [6] to determine mass and entropy spectrum of near extremal Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes which are asymptotically de Sitter rather than asymptotically flat. We show the mass and area spectrum is equally spaced only for a fixed l. For different l there are multiplets with different values of spacing.     

Quantization of black hole entropy from unstable circular null geodesics

The quasinormal mode frequencies can be understood from the massless particles trapped at the unstable circular null geodesics and slowly leaking out to infinity. Based on this viewpoint, in this paper, we semiclassically construct the entropy spectrum of the static and stationary black holes from the null geodesics. The result shows that the spacing of the entropy spectrum only depends on the property of the black hole in the eikonal limit. Moreover, for a black hole far from the extremal case, the spacing is found to be smaller than 2π for any dimension, which is very different from the result of the previous work by using the usual quasinormal mode frequencies.     

Spectroscopy of the Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton–Axion black hole

The entropy spectrum of a spherically symmetric black hole was derived via the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule in Majhi and Vagenas’s work. Extending this work to charged and rotating black holes, we quantize the horizon area and the entropy of an Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton–Axion black hole via the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule and the adiabatic invariance. The result shows the area spectrum and the entropy spectrum are respectively equally spaced and independent on the parameters of the black hole.     

The entropy function for the extremal Kerr-(anti-)de Sitter black holes

Based on Sen's entropy function formalism, we consider the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the extremal Kerr-(anti-)de Sitter black holes in 4-dimensions. Unlike the extremal Kerr black hole case with flat asymptotic geometry, where the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy S is proportional to the angular momentum J, we get a quartic algebraic relation between S and J by using the known solution to the Einstein equation. We recover the same relation in the entropy function formalism. Instead of full geometry, we write down an ansatz for the near horizon geometry only. The exact form of the unknown functions and parameters in the ansatz are obtained by solving the differential equations which extremize the entropy function. The results agree with the nontrivial relation between S and J.We also study the Gauss-Bonnet correction to the entropy exploiting the entropy function formalism. We show that the term, though being topological thus does not affect the solution, contributes a constant addition to the entropy because the term shifts the Hamiltonian by that amount.     

Quantum Corrections for Regular Black Holes with Charge and Coupling Constant

In this paper, we use semi-classical tunneling approach to calculate the quantum corrections to the Hawking temperature as well as entropy of the Kehagias-Sftesos asymptotically flat black hole solution and charged regular black hole with Fermi-Dirac distribution. For this purpose, we apply the first law of black hole thermodynamics to investigate the semi-classical entropy of both black holes having mass as well as charge or coupling constant. For both black holes, the entropy corrections contain the logarithmic term as a leading order correction term. For Kehagias-Sftesos asymptotically flat black hole, the semi-classical Hawking temperature and black hole entropy will behave asymptotically by considering the vanishing coupling constant b = 0. We have obtained the same analysis for the corrected thermodynamical quantities for this BH. For charged regular black hole with Fermi-Dirac distribution, if we neglect the charged effects in our analysis, i.e., q = 0, then these corrections approximately leads to the Schwarzschild black hole which is already given in the literature.