Statistical Hair on Black Holes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-17 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy for certain BPS-saturated black holes in string theory has recently been derived by counting internal black hole microstates at weak coupling. We argue that the black hole microstate can be measured by interference experiments even in the strong coupling region where there is clearly an event horizon. Extracting information which is naively behind the event horizon is possible due to the existence of statistical quantum hair carried by the black hole. This quantum hair arises from the arbitrarily large number of discrete gauge symmetries present in string theory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9606016,
title = {Statistical Hair on Black Holes},
author = {Andrew Strominger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9606016},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, harvmac, minor additions