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Hairy Black Holes in String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v3

Abstract

Solutions of bosonic string theory are constructed which correspond to four-dimensional black holes with axionic quantum hair. The basic building blocks are the renormalization group flows of the CP1 model with a theta term and the SU(1,1)/U(1) WZW coset conformal field theory. However the solutions are also found to have negative energy excitations, and are accordingly expected to decay to the vacuum.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9309152,
  title  = {Hairy Black Holes in String Theory},
  author = {S. B. Giddings and J. A. Harvey and Joseph Polchinski and S. H. Shenker and A. Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9309152},
  year   = {2009}
}

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