The fuzzball proposal for black holes: an elementary review
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We give an elementary review of black holes in string theory. We discuss BPS holes, the microscopic computation of entropy and the `fuzzball' picture of the black hole interior suggested by microstates of the 2-charge system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0502050,
title = {The fuzzball proposal for black holes: an elementary review},
author = {Samir D. Mathur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0502050},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
45 pages, 2 figures; Lecture given at the RTN workshop `The quantum structure of space-time and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions', in Crete, Greece (September 2004)