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Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-07-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation SBH=A/4S_{BH}=A/4 is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS soliton bound states.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9601029,
  title  = {Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy},
  author = {A. Strominger and C. Vafa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9601029},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages. Relatively minor corrections and additions to discussion