Black Holes and Superconformal Mechanics

Piet Claus, Martijn Derix, Jason Kumar, Paul Townsend, Antoine Van Proeyen

Physical Review Letters · 1998 · 278 citations · 9 references

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The dynamics of a (super)particle near the horizon of an extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole is shown to be governed by an action that reduces to a (super)conformal mechanics model in the limit of large black hole mass.

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