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Counting Dyons in N=8 String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

A recently discovered relation between 4D and 5D black holes is used to derive exact (weighted) BPS black hole degeneracies for 4D N=8 string theory from the exactly known 5D degeneracies. A direct 4D microscopic derivation in terms of weighted 4D D-brane bound state degeneracies is sketched and found to agree.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0506151,
  title  = {Counting Dyons in N=8 String Theory},
  author = {David Shih and Andrew Strominger and Xi Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0506151},
  year   = {2009}
}

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