Black Holes in String Theory
| dc.creator | Maldacena, Juan M. | |
| dc.date | 1996-07-31 | |
| dc.date | 1996-08-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:04:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:04:25Z | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.description | Minor changes in the references. 80 pages, 8 figures, uses harvmac | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607235 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607235 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/149371 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Black Holes in String Theory | |
| dc.type | text |