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Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Extremal Black Holes

Juan Maldacena, Andrew Strominger

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9603060

Abstract

String theory is used to count microstates of four-dimensional extremal black holes in compactifications with N=4 and N=8 supersymmetry. The result agrees for large charges with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.

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