TY - JOUR
T1 - Internal structure of black holes
AU - Larsen, Finn
AU - Wilczek, Frank
N1 - Funding Information:
’ Research supported in part by a Danish National Science Foundation Fellowship. E-mail: larsen@puhepl .princeton.edu. ‘Research supported in part by DOE grant DE-FG02-9OBR40542. E-mail: wilczek@sns.ias.edu.
PY - 1996/5/16
Y1 - 1996/5/16
N2 - We present a number of qualitative arguments which strongly suggest that extremal dyonic black holes in the 4-dimensional low energy, classical field theory limit of toroidally compactified heterotic string theory represent largely degenerate classes of states in the quantum theory. We propose a simple expression for the full non-perturbative degeneracy, which contains no free continuous parameters and reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking S = A/4GN in the large-area limit (with the 1/4 arising from microphysics). We sketch the elements of a physical picture leading to this expression: the holes support much hair, such that in counting it we are led to an effective string theory, and a matching condition whose solutions give the degeneracy.
AB - We present a number of qualitative arguments which strongly suggest that extremal dyonic black holes in the 4-dimensional low energy, classical field theory limit of toroidally compactified heterotic string theory represent largely degenerate classes of states in the quantum theory. We propose a simple expression for the full non-perturbative degeneracy, which contains no free continuous parameters and reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking S = A/4GN in the large-area limit (with the 1/4 arising from microphysics). We sketch the elements of a physical picture leading to this expression: the holes support much hair, such that in counting it we are led to an effective string theory, and a matching condition whose solutions give the degeneracy.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00220-1
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00220-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002174703
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 375
SP - 37
EP - 42
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1-4
ER -