Braneless Black Holes

Technical Report · Mon Jun 02 04:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/813205· OSTI ID:813205

Rajaraman, Arvind ^[1]

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1. SLAC

It is known that the naive version of D-brane theory is inadequate to explain the black hole entropy in the limit in which the Schwarzschild radius becomes larger than all compactification radii. We present evidence that a more consistent description can be given in terms of strings with rescaled tensions. We show that the rescaling can be interpreted as a redshift of the tension of a fundamental string in the gravitational field of the black hole. An interesting connection is found between the string level number and the Rindler energy. Using this connection, we reproduce the entropies of Schwarzschild black holes in arbitrary dimensions in terms of the entropy of a single string at the Hagedorn temperature.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 813205
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-9919
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
BLACK HOLES
COMPACTIFICATION
DIMENSIONS
ENTROPY
GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS
SCHWARZSCHILD RADIUS