Matter-ghost mixing and the exact 2d black hole metric

TL;DR

This paper investigates a modified 2d black hole model with matter-ghost mixing, showing its equivalence to a known model and discussing the implications for the exact metric and background structure.

Contribution

It introduces a revised 2d black hole model with matter-ghost mixing and demonstrates its equivalence to Mukhi and Vafa's model with an improved stress tensor.

Findings

The exact metric in the revised model is the semi-classical one.

The model includes ghost-related terms in the background.

The revised model differs from Witten's original black hole metric.

Abstract

We study a revised version of Witten's 2d black hole, in which the matter and (b,c) ghosts are mixed. The level of the coset model is still 9/4. We show that this model is equivalent to that of Mukhi and Vafa, in which the level of the coset model is taken as 3, and the stress tensor is improved. We argue that the exact metric in such a model is just the semi-classical one, quite different from the exact metric in Witten's black hole, being studied by Dijkgraaf, Verlinde and Verlinde. In addition, there appear ghost-related terms as a part of the background in the world sheet action.