Canonical structure of BHT massive gravity in warped AdS3 sector

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the asymptotic structure of warped AdS3 black holes in BHT massive gravity, revealing their symmetry algebra, thermodynamic properties, and consistency with dual CFT predictions.

Contribution

It provides a canonical Hamiltonian analysis of warped AdS3 black holes in BHT massive gravity, identifying their asymptotic symmetry algebra and thermodynamic relations.

Findings

Symmetry group is a semi-direct sum of Virasoro and Kac-Moody algebras.

Black hole entropy matches the Cardy formula of dual CFT.

Conserved charges satisfy the first law and Smarr relation.

Abstract

We investigate the asymptotic structure of the three dimensional warped anti de sitter black holes in the Bergshoeff, Hohm and Townsend massive gravity using the canonical Hamiltonian formalism. We define the canonical asymptotic guage generators, which produce the conserved charges and the asymptotic symmetry group for the warped anti de sitter black holes. The attained symmetry group is described by a semi direct sum of a Virasoro and a KacMoody algebra. Using the Sugawara construction, we obtain a direct sum of two Virasoro algebras. We show that not only the asymptotic conserved charges satisfy the first law of black hole thermodynamics, but also they lead to the expected Smarr formula for the warped anti de sitter black holes. We also show that the black hole entropy obeys the Cardy formula of the dual conformal field theory .