Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and near-extremal BTZ thermodynamics

We study the near horizon 2D gravity theory which captures the near extremal thermodynamics of Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) with excess mass delta M and excess angular momentum delta J = L delta M over extremality. We find that the Jackiw-Teitelboim theory is able to capture such departures from extremality with an additional parameter L relating it to the near extremal BTZ configuration. We are able to show this by obtaining new simultaneous near horizon near extremal limits of the BTZ geometry parametrized by L. The resulting Jackiw-Teitelboim theory captures the near extremal thermodynamics of such BTZ geometries provided we identify the temperature T(2) H of the AdS2 geometry in the Jackiw-Teitelboim theory to be T(2) H = TH/(1 - mu L), where TH is the BTZ temperature and mu its chemical potential with mu L< 1.

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We study the near extremal thermodynamics of Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) gravity theory with excess mass delta M and excess angular momentum delta J = L delta M. We find that the Jackiw-Teitelboim theory can capture such departures from extremality by parametrizing the BTZ geometry with an additional parameter L.