How many black holes fit on the head of a pin?

DOI10.1142/S0218271808012437zbMATH Open1181.83105arXiv0705.2564OpenAlexW2144506249MaRDI QIDQ2454841FDOQ2454841

Publication date: 22 October 2007

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation, International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of certain black holes can be computed microscopically in string theory by mapping the elusive problem of counting microstates of a strongly gravitating black hole to the tractable problem of counting microstates of a weakly coupled D-brane system, which has no event horizon, and indeed comfortably fits on the head of a pin. We show here that, contrary to widely held beliefs, the entropy of spherically symmetric black holes can easily be dwarfed by that of stationary multi-black-hole ``molecules of the same total charge and energy. Thus, the corresponding pin-sized D-brane systems do not even approximately count the microstates of a single black hole, but rather those of a zoo of entropically dominant multicentered configurations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2564

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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