Comments on Black Holes in String Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-04-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
A very brief review is given of some of the developments leading to our current understanding of black holes in string theory. This is followed by a discussion of two possible misconceptions in this subject - one involving the stability of small black holes and the other involving scale radius duality. Finally, I describe some recent results concerning quasinormal modes of black holes in anti de Sitter spacetime, and their implications for strongly coupled conformal field theories (in various dimensions).
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9910082,
title = {Comments on Black Holes in String Theory},
author = {Gary T. Horowitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9910082},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
13 pages. Talk given at Strings '99, Potsdam, Germany