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Hairy Black Holes in String Theory

S. B. Giddings, J. A. Harvey, Joseph Polchinski, S. H. Shenker, A. Strominger

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9309152

Abstract

Solutions of bosonic string theory are constructed which correspond to four-dimensional black holes with axionic quantum hair. The basic building blocks are the renormalization group flows of the CP1 model with a theta term and the SU(1,1)/U(1) WZW coset conformal field theory. However the solutions are also found to have negative energy excitations, and are accordingly expected to decay to the vacuum.

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