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Stretched horizons, quasiparticles and quasinormal modes

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arxiv hep-th/0306209 v3 pith:UD7UEJOZ submitted 2003-06-20 hep-th

Stretched horizons, quasiparticles and quasinormal modes

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keywords quasiparticleshorizonsblackquasinormalstretchedanalyzeareaarises
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We propose that stretched horizons can be described in terms of a gas of non-interacting quasiparticles. The quasiparticles are unstable, with a lifetime set by the imaginary part of the lowest quasinormal mode frequency. If the horizon arises from an AdS/CFT style duality the quasiparticles are also the effective low-energy degrees of freedom of the finite-temperature CFT. We analyze a large class of models including Schwarzschild black holes, non-extremal Dp-branes, the rotating BTZ black hole and de Sitter space, and we comment on degenerate horizons. The quasiparticle description makes manifest the relationship between entropy and area.

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