TASI lectures on black holes in string theory

Abstract

This is a write-up of introductory lectures on black holes in string theory given at TASI-99. Topics discussed include: Black holes, thermodynamics and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, the information problem; supergravity actions, conserved quantum numbers, supersymmetry and BPS states, units and duality, dimensional reduction, solution-generating; extremal M-branes and D-branes, smearing, probe actions, nonextremal branes, the Gregory-Laflamme instability; breakdown of supergravity and the Correspondence Principle, limits in parameter space, singularity resolution; making black holes with branes, intersection-ology, explicit d=5,4 examples; string/brane computations of extremal black hole entropy in d=5,4, rotation, fractionation; non-extremality and entropy, the link to BTZ black holes, Hawking radiation and absorption cross-sections in the string/brane and supergravity pictures.

80 pages LaTeX, 8 figures (v2: references added[apologies to wronged Authors] and a few other minor modifications)

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• The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
• F-theory and AdS_3/CFT_2
• Integrability of Black Hole Orbits in Maximal Supergravity
• Thermal Decay without Information Loss in Horizonless Microstate Geometries
• Verifying the upper bound on the speed of scrambling with the analogue Hawking radiation of trapped ions
• Early Scrambling and Capped BTZ Geometries
• ${\alpha }^{\prime }$-corrected black holes in String Theory
• The Harder They Fall, the Bigger They Become: Tidal Trapping of Strings by Microstate Geometries
• Spherical Branes
• The Great Escape: Tunneling out of Microstate Geometries
• String Stars in Anti de Sitter Space
• Delaying the Inevitable: Tidal Disruption in Microstate Geometries
• Quantum Corrections to the Thermodynamics of Black Branes
• Horizon Strings as 3d Black Hole Microstates
• Knitting Wormholes by Entanglement in Supergravity
• A Spacetime in Toroidal Coordinates
• Stationary $D=4$ Black Holes in Supergravity: The Issue of Real Nilpotent Orbits
• Interpolating between multi-center microstate geometries
• Smarr's Formula in Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity
• BPS Black Hole Entropy and Attractors in Very Special Geometry. Cubic Forms, Gradient Maps and their Inversion
• Charging a Double Kerr Solution in 5D Einstein--Maxwell--Kalb--Ramond Theory
• Q-Balls Meet Fuzzballs: Non-BPS Microstate Geometries