Equivalence of JT Gravity and Near-extremal Black Hole Dynamics in Higher Derivative Theory

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that the near horizon dynamics of four-dimensional near extremal black holes with higher derivative corrections can be effectively described by a modified JT gravity action, extending the known equivalence to more complex theories.

Contribution

It shows that higher derivative corrections lead to a modified Schwarzian action governing near horizon dynamics, generalizing the JT gravity correspondence.

Findings

Near horizon dynamics are captured by a modified Schwarzian action.

Higher derivative corrections alter entropy and free energy calculations.

The effective boundary theory remains a Schwarzian-like action with specific modifications.

Abstract

Two derivative Jackiw Teitelboim gravity theory captures the near horizon dynamics of higher dimensional near extremal black holes, which is governed by a Schwarzian action at the boundary in the near horizon region. The partition function corresponding to this boundary action correctly gives the statistical entropy of the near extremal black hole. In this paper, we study the thermodynamics of spherically symmetric four dimensional near extremal black holes in presence of arbitrary perturbative four derivative corrections. We find that the near horizon dynamics is again captured by a JT like action with a particular namely square of Ricci scalar higher derivative modification. Effectively the theory is described by a boundary Schwarzian action which gets suitably modified due to the presence of the higher derivative interactions. Near extremal entropy, free energy also get corrected accordingly.