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Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy

arXiv:hep-th/9601029 · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0

Abstract

The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS soliton bound states.

12 pages. Relatively minor corrections and additions to discussion

Cited by in corpus (1975)