1996/05/16 by Edi Halyo, E. Halyo, Arvind Rajaraman +3 · 76 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black brane #Black string #Classical mechanics #Compactification (mathematics) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Entropy (arrow of time) #Extremal black hole #General relativity #Gravitation #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum mechanics #Schwarzschild metric #Schwarzschild radius #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(96)01544-4
published in Physics Letters B 392(3-4), 319-322 (Elsevier BV) · 8 pages,latex
arxiv created 1996/05/16 · openalex publication_date 1997/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
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.