Statistical entropy of a stationary dilaton black hole from the Cardy formula

Abstract

With Carlip's boundary conditions, a standard Virasoro subalgebra with a corresponding central charge for a stationary dilaton black hole obtained in the low-energy effective field theory describing string is constructed at a Killing horizon. The statistical entropy of a stationary dilaton black hole yielded by the standard Cardy formula agrees with its Bekenstein-Hawking entropy only if we take the period T of function $v$ as the periodicity of the Euclidean black hole. On the other hand, if we consider a first-order quantum correction then the entropy contains a logarithmic term with a factor $\ensuremath{-}\frac{1}{2},$ which is different from that of Kaul and Majumdar, $\ensuremath{-}\frac{3}{2}.$ We also show that the discrepancy is not just for the dilaton black hole, but for any one whose corresponding central charge takes the form ${c/12=(A}_{H}/8\ensuremath{\pi}G)(2\ensuremath{\pi}/\ensuremath{\kappa}T).$