Comment on Counting Black Hole Microstates Using String Dualities
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We discuss a previous attempt at a microscopic counting of the entropy of asymptotically flat non-extremal black-holes. This method used string dualities to relate 4 and 5 dimensional black holes to the BTZ black hole. We show how the dualities can be justified in a certain limit, equivalent to a near horizon limit, but the resulting spacetime is no longer asymptotically flat.
10 pages, harvmac. v(2) typo corrected
10 pages, harvmac. v(2) typo corrected