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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.

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@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)