AdS3 Gravitational Instantons from Conformal Field Theory.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - t h / 9 9 0 3 0 6 5 v 3 1 J u l 1 9 9 9 hep-th/9903065 OU-HET 316 AdS3 Gravitational Instantons from Conformal Field Theory Shuhei Mano? Department of Physics, Osaka University Osaka 560-0043, Japan Abstract A conformal field theory on the boundary of three-dimensional asymptotic anti-de Sitter spaces which appear as near horizon geometry of D-brane bound states is discussed. It is shown that partition functions of gravitational instantons appear as high and low temper- ature limits of the partition function of the conformal field theory. The result reproduces phase transition between the anti-de Sitter space and the BTZ black hole in the bulk gravity. ?e-mail: mano@het.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp 1 Introduction To understand thermodynamics of black holes [1, 2] is important because it provides us some insight of quantum gravity. The most simple derivation of thermodynamics of black holes is given by the Euclidian quantum gravity approach [3]. We consider a semiclassical partition function in path-integral approach to quantize gravity as Zsemi. = e ?IE [g0]. (1.1) where g0 is a metric of an Euclidian black hole and IE [g0] is the Euclidian action. If we regard this partition function as a statistical mechanical partition function, we can obtain thermodynamical variables. The entropy is given as S = A 4G , (1.2) where A is the area of the event horizon and G is the Newton constant. It is natural to think that the entropy of black holes have some microscopic origin. However, the Euclidian quantum gravity approach has no explanation about the microscopic origin because of its thermodynamic nature [4]. The microscopic derivation of the entropy of black holes can be given in terms of string theory [5, 6, 7]. In this article, we study the D-brane bound states which constructed from a D5-brane, a D1-brane on T 4×S1. The D5-brane wraps four-cycle in T 4 and S1 Q5 times and the D1-brane wraps zero-cycle in T 4 and S1 Q1 times. The Kaluza-Klein momentum is