REVIEW 29 cited by
The statistical mechanics of near-extremal black holes
Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.
This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.
SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event
T0 review · schema-true
One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.
pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp
The statistical mechanics of near-extremal black holes
read the original abstract
An important open question in black hole thermodynamics is about the existence of a "mass gap" between an extremal black hole and the lightest near-extremal state within a sector of fixed charge. In this paper, we reliably compute the partition function of Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m near-extremal black holes at temperature scales comparable to the conjectured gap. We find that the density of states at fixed charge does not exhibit a gap; rather, at the expected gap energy scale, we see a continuum of states. We compute the partition function in the canonical and grand canonical ensembles, keeping track of all the fields appearing through a dimensional reduction on $S^2$ in the near-horizon region. Our calculation shows that the relevant degrees of freedom at low temperatures are those of $2d$ Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to the electromagnetic $U(1)$ gauge field and to an $SO(3)$ gauge field generated by the dimensional reduction.
Forward citations
Cited by 29 Pith papers
-
Quantum JT Gravity in a box as a P\"oschl-Teller Scattering Problem
JT gravity in a box is quantized exactly by recasting its dynamics as Pöschl-Teller scattering, producing closed-form wavefunctions and correlators with finite-cutoff corrections beyond T Tbar.
-
Exact Schwarzian Metric Factor and Holographic Wilson-Loop Screening
Exact Schwarzian averaging yields a completely monotone metric factor with no confining minimum, so the Wilson-loop potential screens as E(L) ~ -κ_IR/L² rather than confining.
-
Constrained particle on a group: from propagators to correlators
Develops a constrained particle-on-group formulation of super-JT gravity that yields super-Schwarzian actions, physical supercharges, and explicit N=2/N=4 three-point functions plus zero-energy OTOCs.
-
How traversable is a traversable wormhole?
Low-frequency scattering calculations show scalar probes through the MMP wormhole are mostly reflected or trapped at early times with late leakage to half the black-hole cross-section, while charged massless fermions ...
-
Not all black holes decohere quantum superpositions
Near-extremal charged black holes make decoherence of charged particle superpositions vanish at late times via a spin-induced energy gap from quantum metric fluctuations.
-
One-loop effect in the charged 2D black hole near extremality
The one-loop correction to near-extremal quantum entropy in this charged 2D black hole is exponentially suppressed at low temperature but scales as sqrt(beta) when the sl(2,R) level and SL(2,R)-U(1) coupling are tuned...
-
Mind the crosscap: $\tau$-scaling in non-orientable gravity and time-reversal-invariant systems
Non-orientable topological gravity produces a resummed topological expansion whose late-time behavior matches the GOE universality class of random matrix theory for time-reversal invariant chaotic systems.
-
Quantum corrections to the near-extremal thermodynamics of (warped) BTZ black holes
Near-extremal BTZ and warped BTZ in TMG receive log-T corrections from Schwarzian and rotational zero modes whose full-geometry eigenvalues match the throat after non-normalizable eigenfunction corrections and BC spec...
-
Falling through the horizon of a quantum black hole
Gravitational dressing in JT gravity lets an infalling Unruh-DeWitt detector detect the horizon location and temperature locally, violating the equivalence principle without a firewall.
-
Inner Horizon Saddles and a Spectral KSW Criterion
Inner horizon saddles supply the semiclassical correction -exp(A_inner/4G) to near-extremal black-hole entropy and motivate a spectral KSW criterion for well-defined one-loop effects around complex gravitational saddles.
-
The Fate of Nucleated Black Holes in de Sitter Quantum Gravity
Nucleated maximal-mass black holes in de Sitter space undergo thermal Hawking evaporation in smooth quantum states and return fully to the empty de Sitter vacuum.
-
Revisiting near-extremal and near-BPS black holes in AdS3 supergravity
In AdS3 supergravity, the gravitational path integral at low temperatures in the near-horizon region is inequivalent to that of the BTZ background, with distinct contributions from bosonic fluctuations, Chern-Simons f...
-
Large-c BCFT Entanglement Entropy with Deformed Boundaries from Emergent JT Gravity
At large central charge, BCFT von Neumann entropy with deformed boundaries is reproduced by island entropy in an emergent JT gravity setup with transparent boundary conditions set by the deformation.
-
Taming the Aretakis instability: extremal black holes with multi-degenerate horizons
Black holes with infinitely degenerate horizons are proposed to be stable against Aretakis instability, potentially serving as end states.
-
Spectral Form Factor of Gapped Random Matrix Systems
In gapped random matrix systems with parametrically many degenerate ground states, the spectral form factor at low temperatures is dominated by the disconnected contribution at all times, while the connected form fact...
-
An extremal black hole with a unique ground state
Microscopic D-brane description of non-supersymmetric extremal black holes yields a unique ground state with non-zero energy, confirming absence of degeneracy.
-
BMPV black hole at first order in $\alpha'$
Derives analytic α' corrections to the three-charge BMPV black hole geometry and computes its corrected entropy via generalized Wald formula, matching supersymmetric index results.
-
Universal Lichnerowicz Lifting of Near-Horizon Soft Modes
The universal logarithmic temperature dependence in near-extremal black hole thermodynamics originates from the first-order lifting of Lichnerowicz tensor zero modes in a 2D maximally symmetric throat, which after nor...
-
Extended Thermodynamics and Renyi Entropy Beyond Fixed Central Charge
A central-charge Rényi entropy is constructed via the CHM map in a grand canonical ensemble with fixed charge, volume, and central charge potential, shown to obey Rényi inequalities and to separate theory space into d...
-
Logarithmic corrections to the entropy of near-extremal black holes in New Massive Gravity
One-loop partition function from boundary graviton zero modes in the near-horizon AdS2 x S1 geometry produces logarithmic corrections to the semiclassical entropy of near-extremal black holes in New Massive Gravity.
-
Axions Create Singularities on Extremal Horizons
Axions cause singularities on the horizons of extremal rotating charged black holes for almost all axion mass and coupling values.
-
The Fate of Nucleated Black Holes in de Sitter Quantum Gravity
Nucleated black holes in de Sitter space evaporate via standard Hawking radiation back to the empty vacuum, rendering nucleation a temporary fluctuation.
-
Revisiting near-extremal and near-BPS black holes in AdS3 supergravity
Quantum analysis of AdS3 supergravity path integrals at low temperature shows near-horizon region inequivalent to BTZ and sharpens near-extremal versus near-BPS distinctions.
-
Replica Phase Transition with Quantum Gravity Corrections
The boundary theory of near-extremal RN black holes shows a replica phase transition controlled by temperature and the couplings C, K, and E.
-
From BTZ Perturbations to Schwarzian Modes: A Geometrical and Perturbative Analysis
Schwarzian modes emerge from the general solution of BTZ perturbations at finite temperature with no rotational modes present, and are equivalently obtained via a Kerr-Schild construction that connects to the double copy.
-
Limits on the Statistical Description of Charged de Sitter Black Holes
Adopting the Bousso-Hawking observer normalization for RNdS black holes produces finite heat capacity near the Nariai limit while confirming vanishing capacity in cold and ultracold limits, limiting statistical descriptions.
-
Finite cutoff JT gravity: Baby universes, Matrix dual, and (Krylov) Complexity
Finite cutoff in JT gravity causes faster ERB-length saturation, deformation-dependent baby-universe emission only under Lorentzian evolution, and possible one-cut universality corrections in the matrix dual.
-
Black holes with quantum corrections in $3d$: The case of Page curve in Lindblad, greybody factor, and Lyapunov exponent
Applies Lindblad open quantum system methods to quantum-corrected 3d AdS black holes to analyze Page curve zig-zag, greybody factors, and Lyapunov exponents in Cotler-Jensen theory.
-
Quantum chaos and the holographic principle
A review of the chaos-assisted holographic correspondence linking the SYK model to 2D JT gravity, including the need for string theory corrections at fine quantum scales.
discussion (0)
Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.