Published August 26, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

A description of multicharged black holes in terms of branes and antibranes

  • 1. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T. Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113 (India)

Description

We describe multicharged black holes in terms of branes and antibranes together with multiple copies of gas of massless excitations. Assuming that energies of these copies of gas are all equal, we find that the entropy of the brane-antibrane configuration agrees with that of the multicharged black hole in supergravity approximation, upto a factor X. We find that X=1 for a suitable normalisation which admits a simple empirical interpretation that the available gas energy is all taken by one single gas which is, in a sense, a certain superposition of the multiple copies; and that the brane tensions are decreased by a factor of 4. This interpretation renders superfluous the assumption of equal energies, which is unnatural from a physical point of view

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.06.085;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0405084v2;
PII
S0370-2693(04)00966-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
596
Journal Issue
3-4
Journal Page Range
p. 221-228
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37062045
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
APPROXIMATIONS; BLACK HOLES; ENTROPY; EXCITATION; SUPERGRAVITY
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; FIELD THEORIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.