Toward black hole entropy in chiral loop quantum supergravity

Eder K, Sahlmann H (2022)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Book Volume: 106

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.026001

Abstract

Recently, many geometric aspects of N-extended anti–de Sitter supergravity in chiral variables have been encountered and clarified. In particular, if the theory is supposed to be invariant under supersymmetry transformations also on boundaries, the boundary term has to be the action of an OSp(N|2)C super Chern-Simons theory, and particular boundary conditions must be met. Based on this, we propose a way to calculate an entropy S for surfaces, presumably including black hole horizons, in the supersymmetric version of loop quantum gravity for the minimal case N=1. It proceeds in analogy to the nonsupersymmetric theory, by calculating dimensions of quantum state spaces of the super Chern-Simons theory with punctures, for a fixed quantum (super) area of the surface. We find S=a_H/4 for large areas and determine the subleading correction. Because of the noncompactness of OSp(1|2)C and the corresponding difficulties with the Chern-Simons quantum theory, we use analytic continuation from the Verlinde formula for a compact real form, UOSp(1|2), in analogy to work by Noui et al. This also entails studying some properties of OSp(1|2)_C representations that we have not found elsewhere in the literature.

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APA:

Eder, K., & Sahlmann, H. (2022). Toward black hole entropy in chiral loop quantum supergravity. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 106(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.026001

MLA:

Eder, Konstantin, and Hanno Sahlmann. "Toward black hole entropy in chiral loop quantum supergravity." Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 106.2 (2022).

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