BPS Spectrum of the Five-Brane and Black Hole Entropy
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-07-09 v2
Abstract
We propose a formulation of 11-dimensional M-theory in terms of five-branes with closed strings on their world-volume. We use this description to construct the complete spectrum of BPS states in compactifications to six and five dimensions. We compute the degeneracy for fixed charge and find it to be in accordance with U-duality (which in our formulation is manifest in six dimensions) and the statistical entropy formula of the corresponding black hole. We also briefly comment on the four-dimensional case.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9603126,
title = {BPS Spectrum of the Five-Brane and Black Hole Entropy},
author = {R. Dijkgraaf and E. Verlinde and H. Verlinde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9603126},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, latex, no figures, blank lines removed