Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation \(S_{BH}=A/4\) is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS soliton bound states.

Related collections

Most cited references 8

Record: found
Abstract: not found
Article: not found

Gravitational Radiation from Colliding Black Holes

S. Hawking (1971)

0 comments Cited 379 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: not found
Article: not found

Black holes and thermodynamics

S. Hawking (1976)

0 comments Cited 355 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: found

Is Open Access

N=2 Extremal Black Holes

Renata Kallosh, Andrew Strominger, Sergio Ferrara (1995)

It is shown that extremal magnetic black hole solutions of N = 2 supergravity coupled to vector multiplets \(X^\Lambda\) with a generic holomorphic prepotential \(F(X^\Lambda)\) can be described as supersymmetric solitons which interpolate between maximally symmetric limiting solutions at spatial infinity and the horizon. A simple exact solution is found for the special case that the ratios of the \(X^\Lambda\) are real, and it is seen that the logarithm of the conformal factor of the spatial metric equals the Kahler potential on the vector multiplet moduli space. Several examples are discussed in detail.