Black hole entropy in M-Theory
Author(s) -
Juan Maldacena,
Andrew Strominger,
Edward Witten
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 261
eISSN - 1126-6708
pISSN - 1029-8479
DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/1997/12/002
Subject(s) - physics , theoretical physics , mathematical physics , entropy (arrow of time) , particle physics , quantum electrodynamics , quantum mechanics
Extremal black holes in M-theory compactification on $M\times S^1$ aremicroscopically represented by fivebranes wrapping $P\times S^1$, where $M$ isa Calabi-Yau threefold and $P$ is a four-cycle in $M$. Additional spacetimecharges arise from momentum around the $S^1$ and expectation values for theself-dual three-form field strength in the fivebrane. The microscopic entropyof the fivebrane as a function of all the charges is determined from atwo-dimensional $(0,4)$ sigma model whose target space includes the fivebranemoduli space. This entropy is compared to the macroscopic formula. Preciseagreement is found for both the tree-level and one-loop expressions.Comment: 17 pages, harvma
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