Brane - Anti-Brane Democracy

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/813206· OSTI ID:813206

Rajaraman, Arvind ^[1]

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1. SLAC

We suggest a duality invariant formula for the entropy and temperature of nonextreme black holes in supersymmetric string theory. The entropy is given in terms of the duality invariant parameter of the deviation from extremality and 56 SU(8) covariant central charges. It interpolates between the entropies of Schwarzschild solution and extremal solutions with various amount of unbroken supersymmetries and therefore serves for classification of black holes in supersymmetric string theories. We introduce the second auxiliary 56 via E(7) symmetric constraint. The symmetric and antisymmetric combinations of these two multiplets are related via moduli to the corresponding two fundamental representations of E(7): brane and anti-brane ''numbers.'' Using the CPT as well as C symmetry of the entropy formula and duality one can explain the mysterious simplicity of the non-extreme black hole area formula in terms of branes and anti-branes.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 813206
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-9920
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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SCHWARZSCHILD METRIC
SYMMETRY