Magnetized Kerr/CFT correspondence

We extend the conjectured Kerr/CFT correspondence to the case of extremal Kerr black holes immersed by a magnetic field, namely the extremal Melvin–Kerr black holes. We compute the central charge which appears in the associated Virasoro algebra generated by a class of diffeomorphisms that satisfies a set of boundary conditions in the near horizon of an extremal Melvin–Kerr black hole. Our results support the Kerr/CFT conjecture, where the macroscopic Bekenstein–Hawking entropy for an extremal Melvin–Kerr black hole matches the result obtained from a dual 2D CFT microscopic computation using Cardy formula. Interestingly, the dual CFT description could be non-unitary, due to the possibility of negative central charge. (paper)