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hep-th1996★ 922 cited
Mirror Symmetry is T-Duality
Andrew Strominger, Shing-Tung Yau, Eric Zaslow
It is argued that every Calabi-Yau manifold with a mirror admits a family of supersymmetric toroidal 3-cycles. Moreover the moduli space of such cycles together with their…
hep-th1996★ 329 cited
Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Extremal Black Holes
Juan Maldacena, Andrew Strominger
String theory is used to count microstates of four-dimensional extremal black holes in compactifications with and supersymmetry. The result agrees for large charges wit…
hep-th1996★ 3.1k cited
Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy
A. Strominger, C. Vafa
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…