Black Holes and Calabi-Yau Threefolds
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We compute the microscopic entropy of certain 4 and 5 dimensional extermal black holes which arise for compactification of M-theory and type IIA on Calabi-Yau 3-folds. The results agree with macroscopic predictions, including some subleading terms. The macroscopic entropy in the 5 dimensional case predicts a surprising growth in the cohomology of moduli space of holomorphic curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds which we verify in the case of elliptic threefolds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9711067,
title = {Black Holes and Calabi-Yau Threefolds},
author = {Cumrun Vafa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9711067},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
11 pages, reference added