Anti-de Sitter quotients: when are they black holes?

Anti de Sitter black holes

In these introductory notes we define constant curvature spacetimes and discuss their symmetries, basic properties and the construction of their spacetime diagram. We then discuss the important properties of anti de Sitter spacetime giving global and local parametrisations. We study the static black holes and then discuss their basic properties and novel topological effects due to the presence ...

Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime

Black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime are known to be thermodynamically stable against radiation, unlike their asymptotically flat counterparts. Moreover, Hawking and Page discovered that they exhibit a first-order phase transition. This was reinterpreted by Witten using the AdS/CFT correspondence as a confinement/deconfinement transition in the quark-gluon plasma. Extending the gauge/g...

Deformations of anti-de Sitter black holes

Eternal black holes in Anti-de-Sitter

We propose a dual non-perturbative description for maximally extended Schwarzschild Anti-de-Sitter spacetimes. The description involves two copies of the conformal field theory associated to the AdS spacetime and an initial entangled state. In this context we also discuss a version of the information loss paradox and its resolution.

Anti - de Sitter Black Holes in Gauged N = 8 Supergravity

We present new anti-de Sitter black hole solutions of gauged N = 8, SO(8) supergravity, which is the massless sector of the AdS4×S vacuum of M-theory. By focusing on the U(1) Cartan subgroup, we find non-extremal 1, 2, 3 and 4 charge solutions. In the extremal limit, they may preserve up to 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and 1/8 of the supersymmetry, respectively. In the limit of vanishing SO(8) coupling consta...