Quantum entropy and exact 4d/5d connection

TL;DR

This paper explores the holographic relationship between five-dimensional black hole entropy and four-dimensional counterparts using localization techniques in supergravity, providing a pathway to exact quantum entropy calculations.

Contribution

It introduces a localization method for off-shell supergravity on a near horizon background, reducing the path integral to a finite-dimensional integral and connecting 4d and 5d quantum entropies.

Findings

Localization reduces supergravity path integral to finite dimensions

Renormalized action matches 4d results without higher derivatives

Framework enables exact 5d/4d quantum entropy connection

Abstract

We consider the AdS_2/CFT_1 holographic correspondence near the horizon of rotating five-dimensional black holes preserving four supersymmetries in N=2 supergravity. The bulk partition function is given by a functional integral over string fields in AdS_2 and is related to the quantum entropy via the Sen's proposal. Under certain assumptions we use the idea of equivariant localization to non-rigid backgrounds and show that the path integral of off-shell supergravity on the near horizon background, which is a circle fibration over AdS_2xS^2, reduces to a finite dimensional integral over n_V+1 parameters C^A, where n_V is the number of vector multiplets of the theory while the C^0 mode corresponds to a normalizable fluctuation of the metric. The localization solutions, which rely only on off-shell supersymmetry, become after a field redefinition, the solutions found for localization of supergravity on AdS_2xS^2. We compute the renormalized action on the localization locus and show that, in the absence of higher derivative corrections, it agrees with the four dimensional counterpart computed on AdS_2x S^2. These results together with possible one-loop contributions can be used to establish an exact connection between five and four dimensional quantum entropies.