Black Holes in String Theory

Abstract

This thesis is devoted to trying to find a microscopic quantum description of black holes. We consider black holes in string theory which is a quantum theory of gravity. We find that the ``area law'' black hole entropy for extremal and near-extremal charged black holes arises from counting microscopic configurations. We study black holes in five and four spacetime dimensions. We calculate the Hawking temperature and give a physical picture of the Hawking decay process. Hopefully, the reader will find here a moderately self contained review of D-branes and string theory applied to black hole physics.

Minor changes in the references. 80 pages, 8 figures, uses harvmac

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• D-brane Approach to Black Hole Quantum Mechanics
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• Statistical Entropy of Nonextremal Four-Dimensional Black Holes and U-Duality

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