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Self-Gravitating Strings and String/Black Hole Correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

In a recent essay, we discussed the possibility of using polymer sizing to model the collapse of a single, long excited string to a black hole. In this letter, we apply this idea to bring further support to string/black hole correspondence. In particular, we reproduce Horowitz and Polchinki's results for self-gravitating fundamental strings and speculate on the nature of the quantum degrees of freedom of black holes in string theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9910122,
  title  = {Self-Gravitating Strings and String/Black Hole Correspondence},
  author = {Ramzi R. Khuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9910122},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, harvmac