Black holes in string theory
Jun, 1996102 pages
Supervisor:
Thesis: PhD - Curtis Callan()
- Princeton U.
e-Print:
- hep-th/9607235 [hep-th]
Report number:
- UMI-96-27605
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Abstract:
This thesis is devoted to trying to find a microscopic quantum description of black holes. We consider black holes in string theory which is a quantum theory of gravity. We find that the ``area law'' black hole entropy for extremal and near-extremal charged black holes arises from counting microscopic configurations. We study black holes in five and four spacetime dimensions. We calculate the Hawking temperature and give a physical picture of the Hawking decay process. Hopefully, the reader will find here a moderately self contained review of D-branes and string theory applied to black hole physics.Note:
- Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Curtis Callan)
- thesis
- string model
- perturbation theory
- field theory: soliton
- membrane model: p-brane
- black hole
- charge: quantization
- duality
- radiation: Hawking
- bibliography
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