Counting states of near extremal black holes

Feb, 1996
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 2368-2371
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Abstract:
A six-dimensional black string is considered and its Bekenstein-Hawking entropy computed. It is shown that to leading order above extremality, this entropy precisely counts the number of string states with the given energy and charges. This identification implies that Hawking decay of the near-extremal black string can be analyzed in string perturbation theory and is perturbatively unitary.
  • string model
  • effective action
  • dimension: 6
  • field equations: solution
  • black hole
  • energy levels
  • charge
  • entropy