Microscopic formulation of black holes in string theory

By J. R. David, Gautam Mandal, S. Wadia. 2002

451 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract In this report we review the microscopic formulation of the five-dimensional black hole of type IIB string theory in terms of the D1–D5 brane system. The emphasis here is more on the brane dynamics than on supergravity solutions. We show how the low energy brane dynamics, combined with crucial inputs from AdS/CFT correspondence, leads to a derivation of black hole thermodynamics and the rate of Hawking radiation. Our approach requires a detailed exposition of the gauge theory and conformal field theory of the D1–D5 system. We also discuss some applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of black hole formation in three dimensions by thermal transition and by collision of point particles.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3de1c79a02694024264afd61de75d3a09ea4909f

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Citations in the corpus

Black hole entropy function, attractors and precision counting of microstates (2007, background): “This is a well known system that appears in the original analysis of the five dimensional black holes in [1] (see [162] for a review of this system).”
Black holes, black rings and their microstates (2007, background): “As it is well known (see [20, 21] for reviews) the states of this CFT can be characterized by various ways of breaking a long effective string of length N1N5 into component strings.”
Mergers and typical black hole microstates (2006, background): “As it is well known (see [31,32] for reviews) the states of this CFT can be characterized by various ways of breaking an effective string of length N1N5 into component strings.”
Higher spins & strings (2014, background): “For the better studied case of AdS3 × S(3) × T(4) (see [29] for a review and references), the dual CFT is believed to be on the moduli space of the free symmetric orbifold [30]”
Fuzzballs with internal excitations (2007, background): “These operators have been discussed previously in the context of marginal deformations of the CFT, see the review [32] and references therein.”
The worldsheet dual of the symmetric product CFT (2018, background): “r the 2d CFT dual to the N= (4;4) supersymmetric background AdS 3 3S M 4 is that it lies on the moduli space of the symmetric product orbifold CFT SymN(M 4) where M 4 is either K3 or T4 [4], see e.g. [5] for a review. (For the other maximally supersymmetric background with M 4 = S3 S1 there is { 1 {”
Towards integrability for AdS 3 / CFT 2 ?> (2014, background): “[17] for a more detailed review of the D1D5 system and an extensive list of references concerning early investigations thereof.”
Lectures on black holes, topological strings and quantum attractors (2006, background): “In the absence of the NS5-branes, the open strings are described at low energy by U(Q2) × U(Q6) gauge bosons together with bifundamental matter, which is known to flow to a CFT with central charge c = 6Q2Q6 in the infrared (see [18] for a detailed analysis of this point).”
The Hagedorn - deconfinement phase transition in weakly coupled large N gauge theories (2004, background): “For instance, string theory on AdS3 is known to undergo a phase transition as a function of temperature both at ‘weak coupling’ [80] (at the orbifold point) and at strong coupling (in a geometric phase for the bulk).”
D‐branes in Standard Model building, gravity and cosmology (2003, unknown): “To appear in Physics Reports Contents”
Lectures on Black Holes and the AdS3/CFT2 Correspondence (2006, background): “The first, and best known, example is realized as the near horizon geometry of the D1-D5 system [1] (for reviews see [13,16]).”
The fuzzball proposal for black holes (2008, background): “Explicit free field representations of these operators are reviewed in [49] but these will not be needed in what follows.”
Towards lattice simulation of the gauge theory duals to black holes and hot strings (2007, background): “For a review of these approaches we refer the reader to [4] and for an interesting new proposal concerning understanding the microscopic description without resorting to a weak coupling continuation see the work of Mathur [5].”