2010

Self-Dual Warped AdS$_3$ Black Holes

Chen, Bin, Ning, Bo

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We study a new class of solutions of three-dimensional topological massive gravity.

  • These solutions can be taken as non-extremal black holes, with their extremal counterparts being discrete quotients of spacelike warped AdS$_3$ along the $U(1)_L$ isometry.
  • We study the thermodynamics of these black holes and show that the first law is satisfied.
  • We also show that for consistent boundary conditions, the asymptotic symmetry generators form only one copy of the Virasoro algebra with central charge $c_L = \frac{4\nu\ell}{G(\nu^2+3)}$, with which the Cardy formula reproduces the black hole entropy.

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