Black Hole Thermodynamics from Calculations in Strongly-Coupled Gauge Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We develop an approximation scheme for the quantum mechanics of N D0-branes at finite temperature in the 't Hooft large-N limit. The entropy of the quantum mechanics calculated using this approximation agrees well with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a ten-dimensional non-extremal black hole with 0-brane charge. This result is in accord with the duality conjectured by Itzhaki, Maldacena, Sonnenschein and Yankielowicz. Our approximation scheme provides a model for the density matrix which describes a black hole in the strongly-coupled quantum mechanics.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0007051,
title = {Black Hole Thermodynamics from Calculations in Strongly-Coupled Gauge Theory},
author = {Daniel Kabat and Gilad Lifschytz and David A. Lowe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0007051},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
16 pages, 5 figures, latex, (v2 minor corrections)