Dilatonic black holes, naked singularities and strings

Jul, 1992
8 pages
Published in:
  • EPL 26 (1994) 321-326
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Report number:
  • UAHEP-9213

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Abstract:
We extend a previous calculation which treated Schwarschild black hole horizons as quantum mechanical objects to the case of a charged, dilaton black hole. We show that for a unique value of the dilaton parameter `a', which is determined by the condition of unitarity of the S matrix, black holes transform at the extremal limit into strings.
  • quantum gravity
  • black hole: dilaton
  • astrophysics: string
  • particle: massless
  • massless: particle
  • S-matrix: unitarity
  • black hole: charge
  • string tension