Microscopic derivation of the Bekenstein--Hawking entropy formula for non-extremal black holes
Abstract
We derive the Bekenstein--Hawking entropy formula for four and five dimensional non-supersymmetric black holes (which include the Schwarzchild ones) by counting microscopic states. This is achieved by first showing that these black holes are U-dual to the three-dimensional black hole of Banados--Teitelboim--Zanelli and then counting microscopic states of the latter following Carlip's approach. Higher than five dimensional black holes are also considered. We discuss the connection of our approach to the D-brane picture.Keywords
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