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Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy

Strominger, ADepartment of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530, USAVafa, CLyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
1996en
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Abstract

The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation S_{BH}=A/4 is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS soliton bound states.

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