Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-05-17
Gen.Rel.Grav.39:1539-1544,2007; Int.J.Mod.Phys.D17:679-684,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
4 pages, fourth prize in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay competition 2007
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10714-007-0469-4 10.114
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.
Denef Frederik
Moore Gregory W.
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