dc.contributor.author | Denef, Frederik | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, Gregory W. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-02T17:29:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Denef, Frederik, and Gregory W. Moore. 2007. How many black holes fit on the head of a pin? General Relativity and Gravitation 39(10): 1539-1544. | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0001-7701 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3138326 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of certain black holes can be computed microscopically in string theory by mapping the elusive problem of counting microstates of a strongly gravitating black hole to the tractable problem of counting microstates of a weakly coupled D-brane system, which has no event horizon, and indeed comfortably fits on the head of a pin. We show here that, contrary to widely held beliefs, the entropy of spherically symmetric black holes can easily be dwarfed by that of stationary multi-black-hole “molecules” of the same total charge and energy. Thus, the corresponding pin-sized D-brane systems do not even approximately count the microstates of a single black hole, but rather those of a zoo of entropically dominant multicentered configurations. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Mathematics | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Physics | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10714-007-0469-4 | en |
dc.relation.hasversion | http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0705/0705.2564v1.pdf | en |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.title | How Many Black Holes Fit on the Head of a Pin? | en |
dc.relation.journal | General Relativity and Gravitation | en |
dash.depositing.author | Denef, Frederik | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10714-007-0469-4 | * |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Denef, Frederik | |