Black Holes, Black Rings and their Microstates Export

@misc{citeulike:1064888, abstract = {In this review article we describe some of the recent progress towards the construction and analysis of three-charge configurations in string theory and supergravity. We begin by describing the Born-Infeld construction of three-charge supertubes with two dipole charges, and then discuss the general method of constructing three-charge solutions in five dimensions. We explain in detail the use of these methods to construct black rings, black holes, as well smooth microstate geometries with black hole and black ring charges, but with no horizon. We present arguments that many of these microstates are dual to boundary states that belong to the same sector of the D1-D5-P CFT as the typical states. We end with an extended discussion of the implications of this work for the physics of black holes in string theory.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Bena, Iosif and Warner, Nicholas P.}, citeulike-article-id = {1064888}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701216}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0701216}, day = {23}, eprint = {hep-th/0701216}, keywords = {3, attractor, charges, entropy, mechanism, microstates, on, school, the, winter}, month = {Jan}, posted-at = {2007-01-24 10:42:37}, priority = {2}, title = {Black Holes, Black Rings and their Microstates}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701216}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1064888 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1064888 N2 - In this review article we describe some of the recent progress towards the construction and analysis of three-charge configurations in string theory and supergravity. We begin by describing the Born-Infeld construction of three-charge supertubes with two dipole charges, and then discuss the general method of constructing three-charge solutions in five dimensions. We explain in detail the use of these methods to construct black rings, black holes, as well smooth microstate geometries with black hole and black ring charges, but with no horizon. We present arguments that many of these microstates are dual to boundary states that belong to the same sector of the D1-D5-P CFT as the typical states. We end with an extended discussion of the implications of this work for the physics of black holes in string theory. TI - Black Holes, Black Rings and their Microstates KW - 3 KW - attractor KW - charges KW - entropy KW - mechanism KW - microstates KW - on KW - school KW - the KW - winter AU - Bena, Iosif AU - Warner, Nicholas PY - 2007/Jan/23/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701216 ER -