PIRSA:20100050

Anomalies in gravitational charge algebras of null boundaries and black hole entropy

Chandrasekaran, V. (2020). Anomalies in gravitational charge algebras of null boundaries and black hole entropy . Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/20100050

Chandrasekaran, Venkatesa. Anomalies in gravitational charge algebras of null boundaries and black hole entropy . Perimeter Institute, Oct. 13, 2020, https://pirsa.org/20100050 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:20100050,
            doi = {10.48660/20100050},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/20100050},
            author = {Chandrasekaran, Venkatesa},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Anomalies in gravitational charge algebras of null boundaries and black hole entropy },
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2020},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:20100050 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Venkatesa Chandrasekaran

University of California, Berkeley

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 I will discuss how central extensions of charge algebras in gravitational theories with null boundaries arise from an anomalous transformation of the boundary term in the gravitational action. This parallels the way in which the holographic Weyl anomaly appears in AdS/CFT, with the ambiguity in the normalization of the null generator being the analogue of the choice of Weyl frame. I will discuss a way to define the gravitational charges unambiguously within the covariant phase space formalism. As an application, I will analyze the near-horizon Virasoro symmetries of black holes and give a systematic derivation of the central charges. I will show that the central extension computed by the charge algebra is directly related to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy via the Cardy formula.