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Microstates of Non-supersymmetric Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

A five-dimensional dyonic black hole in Type-I theory is considered that is extremal but non-supersymmetric. It is shown that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of this black hole counts precisely the microstates of a D-brane configuration with the same charges and mass, even though there is no apparent supersymmetric nonrenormalization theorem for the mass. A similar result is known for the entropy at the stretched horizon of electrically charged, extremal, but non-supersymmetric black holes in heterotic string theory. It is argued that classical nonrenormalization of the mass may partially explain this result.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9702050,
  title  = {Microstates of Non-supersymmetric Black Holes},
  author = {Atish Dabholkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9702050},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, harvmac, a paragraph about classical non-renormalization in asymptotically flat co-ordinates and references added