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Black Hole Microstate Counting and its Macroscopic Counterpart

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-04-04 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We survey recent results on the exact dyon spectrum in a class of N=4 supersymmetric string theories, and discuss how the results can be understood from the macroscopic viewpoint using AdS_2/CFT_1 correspondence. The comparison between the microscopic and the macroscopic results includes power suppressed corrections to the entropy, the sign of the index, logarithmic corrections and also the twisted index measuring the distribution of discrete quantum numbers among the microstates.

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@article{arxiv.1008.3801,
  title  = {Black Hole Microstate Counting and its Macroscopic Counterpart},
  author = {Ipsita Mandal and Ashoke Sen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3801},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

38 pages, LaTeX, based on lectures at various schools; v2: updated with recent results on sign of index, logarithmic corrections, localization etc

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