Extremal Kerr/CFT correspondence of five-dimensional rotating (charged) black holes with squashed horizons Original Research Article

A new holographic duality named Kerr/CFT correspondence was recently proposed to derive the statistical entropy of four-dimensional extremal Kerr black holes via identifying the quantum states in the near-horizon region with those of two-dimensional conformal field theory living on the boundary. In this paper, we apply this method to investigate five-dimensional extremal Kerr and Cvetič–Youm black holes with squashed horizons in different coordinates and find that the near-horizon geometries are not affected by the squashing transformation. Our investigation shows that the microscopic entropies are in agreement with those given by Bekenstein–Hawking formula. In addition, we have also investigated thermodynamics of the general non-extremal Cvetič–Youm black holes with squashed horizons.