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Absorption and Hawking Radiation of Minimal and Fixed Scalars, and AdS/CFT correspondence

Justin R. David, Gautam Mandal, Spenta R. Wadia

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9808168

Abstract

We present a complete derivation of absorption cross-section and Hawking radiation of minimal and fixed scalars from the Strominger-Vafa model of five-dimensional black hole, starting right from the moduli space of the D1-D5 brane system. We determine the precise coupling of this moduli space to bulk modes by using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our methods resolve a long-standing problem regarding emission of fixed scalars. We calculate three-point correlators of operators coupling to the minimal scalars from supergravity and from SCFT, and show that both vanish. We make some observations about how the AdS/SYM correspondence implies a close relation between large N equations of motion of d-dimensional gauge theory and supergravity equations on AdSd+1-type backgrounds. We compare with the explicit nonlocal transform relating 1 and 2 dimensions in the context of c=1 matrix model.

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