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High Energy Physics - Theory, hep-th,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, gr-qc
Abstract:
We study conformal symmetries on the horizon of a general stationary and
axisymmetric black hole. We find that there exist physically reasonable
boundary conditions that uniquely determine a set of symmetry generators, which
form one copy of the Virasoro algebra. For extremal black holes, Cardy's
formula reproduces exactly the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.