1997/01/28 by Sergio Ferrara, Ferrara, Sergio · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9701163
13 pages, figures, uses procsla,epsf,epsfig; Talk given at the 12th Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, Rome, September 1996
arxiv created 1997/01/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The role of Bertotti-Robinson geometry in the attractor mechanism of extremal black holes is described for the case of N = 2 supersymmetry. Its implication for a model-independent derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula is discussed.