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High Energy Theory Seminar
Small Black Holes in Near Extremal Gravity
The extremal gravity proposal is a conjectured duality between pure gravity in three dimensions and a speculative set of 2d CFTS. I will discuss a computation of the number of black hole micro-states in these theories. This micro-state counting inspires a mild modification of the extremal gravity proposal which passes many non-trivial checks, and evades a no-go theorem of the original conjecture. I will further comment on the implications for more general sparse theories of gravity.
Date & Time
May 02, 2016 | 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Location
Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room 407Speakers
Ethan Dyer
Affiliation
Stanford University