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The fuzzball proposal for black holes: an elementary review

arXiv:hep-th/0502050 · doi:10.1002/prop.200410203

Abstract

We give an elementary review of black holes in string theory. We discuss BPS holes, the microscopic computation of entropy and the `fuzzball' picture of the black hole interior suggested by microstates of the 2-charge system.

45 pages, 2 figures; Lecture given at the RTN workshop `The quantum structure of space-time and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions', in Crete, Greece (September 2004)