An SLE approach to four dimensional black hole microstate entropy
Abstract
In this note, we model the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a four dimensional extremal black hole in terms of classifying particles moving in its near horizon AdS2 geometry. We use the framework of SLE curves in AdS2 to classify these particle trajectories in terms of their boundary conditions. These turn out to be related to singular vectors in two-dimensional conformal quantum gravity theory in AdS2 and the dynamics of these particles are governed by the Hamiltonians of the integrable Calogero-like models, for these boundary conditions. We use this classification to count the leading order Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the black hole and arrive at a first principle microscopic computation of black hole degeneracy.
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