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Comment on Counting Black Hole Microstates Using String Dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We discuss a previous attempt at a microscopic counting of the entropy of asymptotically flat non-extremal black-holes. This method used string dualities to relate 4 and 5 dimensional black holes to the BTZ black hole. We show how the dualities can be justified in a certain limit, equivalent to a near horizon limit, but the resulting spacetime is no longer asymptotically flat.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312164,
  title  = {Comment on Counting Black Hole Microstates Using String Dualities},
  author = {Assaf Shomer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312164},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages, harvmac. v(2) typo corrected