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High Energy Physics Seminar -Vishnu Jejjala (Universty of Witwatersrand) - Hot Attractors

Vishnu Jejjala
December 10, 2015
2:30PM - 3:30PM
4138 Physics Research Building

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Add to Calendar 2015-12-10 14:30:00 2015-12-10 15:30:00 High Energy Physics Seminar -Vishnu Jejjala (Universty of Witwatersrand) - Hot Attractors Non-extremal black holes, which emit thermal Hawking radiation, have two horizons: the event horizon or outer horizon and the Cauchy horizon or inner horizon. Surprisingly, for a broad class of solutions to the Einstein equations, the product of the areas of the inner and outer horizons is the square of the area of the horizon of the zero temperature black hole obtained from taking the smooth extremal limit. We use the attractor mechanism in supergravity to motivate this result. We motivate these results in terms of CFT. 4138 Physics Research Building Department of Physics physics@osu.edu America/New_York public

Non-extremal black holes, which emit thermal Hawking radiation, have two horizons: the event horizon or outer horizon and the Cauchy horizon or inner horizon. Surprisingly, for a broad class of solutions to the Einstein equations, the product of the areas of the inner and outer horizons is the square of the area of the horizon of the zero temperature black hole obtained from taking the smooth extremal limit. We use the attractor mechanism in supergravity to motivate this result. We motivate these results in terms of CFT.