The Bekenstein formula and string theory (N-brane theory)

Peet, Amanda W.

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/15/11/003

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“…Several topics are closely related to the subject of this review, but are not included: (1) Various calculations and explanations of the BH entropy [169,355] became a large and rather independent field of research which shows, however, overlaps [165,171] with the general treatment of the dilaton theories presented in this review. We do not cover approaches which imply further physical assumptions which transgress the orthodox application of quantum theory to gravity [34,35,43,24,31].…”

Section: Structure Of This Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dilaton gravity in two dimensions

2002

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The study of general two dimensional models of gravity allows to tackle basic questions of quantum gravity, bypassing important technical complications which make the treatment in higher dimensions difficult. As the physically important examples of spherically symmetric Black Holes, together with string inspired models, belong to this class, valuable knowledge can also be gained for these systems in the quantum case. In the last decade new insights regarding the exact quantization of the geometric part of such theories have been obtained. They allow a systematic quantum field theoretical treatment, also in interactions with matter, without explicit introduction of a specific classical background geometry. The present review tries to assemble these results in a coherent manner, putting them at the same time into the perspective of the quite large literature on this subject.

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confidence: 99%

Dilaton gravity in two dimensions

2002

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“…Rather than presenting the solution and showing that it solves the low energy equations of type II superstring, we will describe some aspects of the art of solution-building. There are many excellent reviews of this area (see, for example, [45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53], other general reviews on black holes in string/M theories include [54,55,56]), so we shall be brief. The method of construction of various classical solutions, we will see, will throw light on the microscopic configurations corresponding to these solutions.…”

Section: Construction Of Classical Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microscopic formulation of black holes in string theory

David¹,

Mandal²,

Wadia³

2002

Physics Reports

360

545

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In this Report we review the microscopic formulation of the five dimensional black hole of type IIB string theory in terms of the D1-D5 brane system. The emphasis here is more on the brane dynamics than on supergravity solutions. We show how the low energy brane dynamics, combined with crucial inputs from AdS/CFT correspondence, leads to a derivation of black hole thermodynamics and the rate of Hawking radiation. Our approach requires a detailed exposition of the gauge theory and conformal field theory of the D1-D5 system. We also discuss some applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of black hole formation in three dimensions by thermal transition and by collision of point particles.

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“…String theory has been very successful in exactly reproducing the entropy of a variety of supersymmetric black holes by counting appropriate microstates (see, e.g., reviews [1,2] and references therein). We will show below that similar techniques can be applied to extremal Kerr to reproduce (1.1).…”

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Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole in M Theory

Horowitz

Roberts

2007

Phys. Rev. Lett.

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We show that an extremal Kerr black hole, appropriately lifted to M-theory, can be transformed to a Kaluza-Klein black hole in Mtheory, or a D0-D6 charged black hole in string theory. Since all the microstates of the latter have recently been identified, one can exactly reproduce the entropy of an extremal Kerr black hole. We also show that the topology of the event horizon is not well defined in M-theory.arXiv:0708.1346v1 [hep-th]

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The Bekenstein formula and string theory (N-brane theory)

Cited by 109 publications

References 262 publications

Dilaton gravity in two dimensions

Dilaton gravity in two dimensions

Microscopic formulation of black holes in string theory

Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole in M Theory

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