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 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