Effective Conformal Descriptions of Black Hole Entropy: A Review

Abstract

Black holes behave as thermodynamic objects, and it is natural to ask for an underlying "statistical mechanical" explanation in terms of microscopic degrees of freedom. I summarize attempts to describe these degrees of freedom in terms of a dual two-dimensional conformal field theory, emphasizing the generality of the Cardy formula and the consequent universal nature of the conformal description.

To appear in Proc. of the Sixth International School on Field Theory and Gravity, Petropolis, Brazil, 2012

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