Exact microscopic entropy of non-supersymmetric extremal black rings

Abstract

In this brief paper we show that the horizon entropy of the largest known class of non-supersymmetric extremal black rings, with up to six parameters, is exactly reproduced for all values of the ring radius using the same conformal field theory of the four-charge four-dimensional black hole. A particularly simple case is a dipole black ring without any conserved charges. The mass gets renormalized, but the first corrections it receives can be easily understood as an interaction potential energy. Finally, we stress that even if the entropy is correctly reproduced, this only implies that one sector of chiral excitations has been identified, but an understanding of excitations in the other sector is still required in order to capture the black ring dynamics.