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Microscopic Entropy of N=2 Extremal Black Holes

David M. Kaplan, David A. Lowe, Juan M. Maldacena, Andrew Strominger

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9609204

Abstract

String theory is used to compute the microscopic entropy for several examples of black holes in compactifications with N=2 supersymmetry. Agreement with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and the moduli-independent N=2 area formula is found in all cases.

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