Scaling dimensions in hidden Kerr/CFT correspondence

David A. Lowe, Ilies Messamah, Antun Skanata

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Abstract

It has been proposed that a hidden conformal field theory (CFT) governs the dynamics of low frequency scattering in a general Kerr black hole background. We further investigate this correspondence by mapping higher order corrections to the massless wave equations in a Kerr background to an expansion within the CFT in terms of higher dimension operators. This implies the presence of infinite towers of CFT primary operators with positive conformal dimensions compatible with unitarity. The exact Kerr background softly breaks the conformal symmetry and the scaling dimensions of these operators run with frequency. The scale-invariant fixed point is dual to a degenerate case of flat spacetime.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number024030
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume84
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 18 2011
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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