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.
Cite
@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