Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy

Strominger, Andrew; Vafa, Cumrun

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0

Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy

Andrew Strominger
(
- UC, Santa Barbara
)
,
Cumrun Vafa
(
- Harvard U.
)

Jan, 1996

10 pages

Published in:

Phys.Lett.B 379 (1996) 99-104

e-Print:

hep-th/9601029 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0

Report number:

HUTP-96-A002,
RU-96-01

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Abstract:

The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation

S_{BH}=A/4

is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS soliton bound states.

Note:

10 pages, harvmac Report-no: HUTP-96/A002, RU-96-01

black hole: entropy
dimension: 5
string model
bound state: soliton
space-time: horizon
membrane model

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