Counting States of Near-Extremal Black Holes

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10 February 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

A six-dimensional black string is considered and its Bekenstein-Hawking entropy computed. It is shown that to leading order above extremality, this entropy precisely counts the number of string states with the given energy and charges. This identification implies that Hawking decay of the near-extremal black string can be analyzed in string perturbation theory and is perturbatively unitary.

Keywords

PERTURBATION THEORY
COUNTING STATES
EXTREMAL BLACK
BLACK STRING
BLACK HOLES
ENTROPY
HAWKING
STRING
COUNTS

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Version 1, 1996-02-10, ArXiv
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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 77 (12), 2368.

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