One loop corrections to the thermodynamics of near-extremal Kerr-(A)dS black holes from Heun equation

TL;DR

This paper calculates one-loop quantum corrections to near-extremal Kerr-(A)dS black holes using Heun equations, revealing how different limits affect thermodynamic properties and entropy corrections.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach linking Heun equation connection coefficients to quantum corrections in black hole thermodynamics, highlighting distinct physical behaviors in various near-extremal limits.

Findings

Cold case shows universal log(T) entropy corrections.

Different near-extremal limits lead to distinct differential equations.

Comparison with Denef-Hartnoll-Sachdev formula confirms results.

Abstract

We compute one-loop corrections to the euclidean gravitational path integral of near-extremal (anti-)de Sitter-Kerr black hole in terms of the connection coefficients of the Heun equation describing the black hole linear perturbations in the Teukolsky formalism. We show that different near-extremal limits lead to distinct physical properties of the gravitational configuration, as they get described by distinct limiting differential equations. As a result, the light modes emerging in the limit determine different scaling properties in the temperature of the one-loop determinants. We show that the cold case displays distinctive universal log(T) corrections to the entropy of the system, including the ultracold regime. On the contrary, these do not appear in the limit in which the event horizon superimposes onto the cosmological one. In the Schwarzschild-de Sitter case, a further check is performed by comparison with the Denef-Hartnoll-Sachdev formula.