Black Hole Geometry around an Elementary BPS String State

Abstract

We probe the geometry around an elementary BPS (EBPS) state in heterotic string theory compactified on a six-torus by scattering a massless scalar off it and comparing with the corresponding experiment in which the EBPS state is replaced by a classical extremal black hole background satisfying the BPS condition. We find that the low energy limit of the scattering amplitudes precisely agree if one takes the limit $m_{\mathrm{bh}}>>m_P$. In the classical experiment, beyond a certain frequency of the incident wave, part of the wave is found to be absorbed by the black hole, whereas in case of the string scattering there is a critical frequency (inelastic threshold) of the probe beyond which the EBPS state gets excited to a higher mass non-BPS elementary state. The classical absorption threshold matches exactly with the inelastic threshold in the limit of maximum degeneracy of the EBPS state of a given mass. In that limit we can therefore identify absorption by the black hole as excitation of the elementary string state to the next vibrational state of the string and consequently also identify the non-BPS string state as a non-extremal black hole.

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• EXTREMAL BLACK HOLES AND ELEMENTARY STRING STATES

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