A Comment on Black Hole Entropy in String Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v2
Abstract
In this note, we extend the string theoretic calculation of the black hole entropy, first performed by Susskind and Uglum, away from the infinite mass limit. It is shown that the result agrees with that obtained from the classical action of string theory, using the Noether charge method developed by Wald. Also shown in the process is the equivalence of two general techniques for finding black hole entropies-the Noether charge method, and the method of conical singularities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9406011,
title = {A Comment on Black Hole Entropy in String Theory},
author = {William Nelson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9406011},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, uses harvmac and epsf, two postscript figures appended. (A page is added describing how to do the computation rigorously. Also some notation is altered.)