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Macroscopic Entropy of $N=2$ Extremal Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v3

Abstract

Extremal BPS-saturated black holes in N=2N=2, d=4d=4 supergravity can carry electric and magnetic charges (q(m)Λ,qΛ(e))(q^\Lambda_{(m)},q_\Lambda^{(e)}). It is shown that in smooth cases the moduli fields at the horizon take a fixed "rational" value XΛ(q(m),q(e))X^\Lambda(q_{(m)},q^{(e)}) which is determined by the charges and is independent of the asymptotic values of the moduli fields. A universal formula for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is derived in terms of the charges and the moduli space geometry at XΛ(q(m),q(e))X^\Lambda(q_{(m)},q^{(e)}). This work extends previous results of Ferrara, Kallosh and the author for the pure magnetic case.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9602111,
  title  = {Macroscopic Entropy of $N=2$ Extremal Black Holes},
  author = {Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9602111},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Reference corrected, 8 pages, Latex