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Nonextremal Black Hole Microstates and U-duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A six-parameter family of five-dimensional black hole solutions is constructed which are labeled by their mass, two asymptotic scalar fields and three charges. It is shown that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is exactly matched, arbitrarily far from extremality, by a simple but mysterious duality-invariant extension of previously derived formulae for the number of D-brane states in string theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9603109,
  title  = {Nonextremal Black Hole Microstates and U-duality},
  author = {Gary Horowitz and Juan Maldacena and Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9603109},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages

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