Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-11-03
Class.Quant.Grav.25:214004,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Review based on lectures of JdB at CERN RTN Winter School and of VB at PIMS Summer School. 68 pages. Added references
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/25/21/214004
Gravitational entropy arises in string theory via coarse graining over an underlying space of microstates. In this review we would like to address the question of how the classical black hole geometry itself arises as an effective or approximate description of a pure state, in a closed string theory, which semiclassical observers are unable to distinguish from the "naive" geometry. In cases with enough supersymmetry it has been possible to explicitly construct these microstates in spacetime, and understand how coarse-graining of non-singular, horizon-free objects can lead to an effective description as an extremal black hole. We discuss how these results arise for examples in Type II string theory on AdS_5 x S^5 and on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4 that preserve 16 and 8 supercharges respectively. For such a picture of black holes as effective geometries to extend to cases with finite horizon area the scale of quantum effects in gravity would have to extend well beyond the vicinity of the singularities in the effective theory. By studying examples in M-theory on AdS_3 x S^2 x CY that preserve 4 supersymmetries we show how this can happen.
Balasubramanian Vijay
Boer Jan de
El-Showk Sheer
Messamah Ilies
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