Relating Schwarzschild black holes to branes-antibranes

2006/12/31 by Dan Gluck, Dan Glück, Yaron Oz
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black brane #Brane cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Entropy (arrow of time) #Extremal black hole #Mathematical physics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #String theory #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/089

published as JHEP 0703:089,2007 · 40 pages, 1 figure. Subsections 4.5 (BH degrees of freedom) and 4.6 (charged BH) added; Added a note on bubble geometry; References added

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Abstract

We construct in the supergravity framework a relation between thermal chargeless non-extremal black three-branes and thermal Dirichlet branes-antibranes systems. We propose this relation as a possible explanation for the intriguing similarity between the black branes Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and the field theory entropy of thermal branes-antibranes. We comment on various relations between branes, antibranes and non-BPS branes in type II string theories.

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