Journal of High Energy Physics (Sep 2019)

The BPS limit of rotating AdS black hole thermodynamics

  • Davide Cassani,
  • Lorenzo Papini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2019)079
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2019, no. 9
pp. 1 – 48

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Abstract We consider rotating, electrically charged, supersymmetric AdS black holes in four, five, six and seven dimensions, and provide a derivation of the respective extremization principles stating that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is the Legendre transform of a homogeneous function of chemical potentials, subject to a complex constraint. Extending a recently proposed BPS limit, we start from finite temperature and reach extremality following a supersymmetric trajectory in the space of complexified solutions. We show that the entropy function is the supergravity on-shell action in this limit. Chemical potentials satisfying the extremization equations also emerge from the complexified solution.

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