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Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy

A. Strominger, C. Vafa

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9601029

Abstract

The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation SBH=A/4 is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS soliton bound states.

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