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Modave Lectures on Fuzzballs and Emission from the D1-D5 System

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-09-09 v3

Abstract

These lecture notes present an introduction to the fuzzball proposal and emission from the D1-D5 system which is geared to an audience of graduate students and others with little background in the subject. The presentation begins with a discussion of the Penrose process and Hawking radiation. The fuzzball proposal is then introduced, and the two- and three-charge systems are reviewed. In the three-charge case details are not discussed. A detailed discussion of emission calculations for D1-D5-P black holes and for certain non-extremal fuzzballs from both the gravity and CFT perspectives is included. We explicitly demonstrate how seemingly different emission processes in gravity, namely, Hawking radiation and superradiance from D1-D5-P black holes, and ergoregion emission from certain non-extremal fuzzballs, are only different manifestations of the same phenomenon in the CFT.

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@article{arxiv.1001.1444,
  title  = {Modave Lectures on Fuzzballs and Emission from the D1-D5 System},
  author = {Borun D. Chowdhury and Amitabh Virmani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1444},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

54 pages, 20 figures; notes of lectures presented at the 5th Modave Summer School; to appear in proceedings of the Solvay Institutes; v3 minor typos corrected