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Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 428 - 429 (1996)

Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Extremal Black Holes

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Juan M. Maldacena1 and Andrew Strominger2
1Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
2Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106

Received 8 April 1996

String theory is used to count microstates of four-dimensional extremal black holes in compactifications with N  =  4 and N  =  8 supersymmetry. The result agrees for large charges with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v77/p428
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.428
PACS: 04.70.Dy, 11.25.Mj

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