Self-Gravitating Strings and String/Black Hole Correspondence

Abstract

In a recent essay, we discussed the possibility of using polymer sizing to model the collapse of a single, long excited string to a black hole. In this letter, we apply this idea to bring further support to string/black hole correspondence. In particular, we reproduce Horowitz and Polchinki's results for self-gravitating fundamental strings and speculate on the nature of the quantum degrees of freedom of black holes in string theory.

8 pages, harvmac

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• Self Gravitating Fundamental Strings
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