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On Black Holes In String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-06-03 v1

Abstract

In these lecture notes from Strings `91, I briefly sketch the analogy between two dimensional black holes and the s-wave sector of four dimensional black holes, and the physical interest of the latter, particularly in the magnetically charged case.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9111052,
  title  = {On Black Holes In String Theory},
  author = {Edward Witten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9111052},
  year   = {2012}
}

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7 pages

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