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Conformal Symmetries on the Horizon and Black Hole Entropy in Generic Dimensions

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Relativity and Gravitation

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In this short note I briefly summarize some recent results regardingconformal symmetries on the horizon of general stationary and axisymmetric black holes in generic dimensions.

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Golm, Germany

    Jianwei Mei

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jiří Bičák

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Ledvinka

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Mei, J. (2014). Conformal Symmetries on the Horizon and Black Hole Entropy in Generic Dimensions. In: Bičák, J., Ledvinka, T. (eds) Relativity and Gravitation. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06761-2_41

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