String theory is used to count microstates of four-dimensional extremal black holes in compactifications with N = 4 and N = 8 supersymmetry. The result agrees for large charges with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
%0 Journal Article
%1 citeulike:4056726
%A Maldacena, Juan M.
%A Strominger, Andrew
%D 1996
%I American Physical Society
%J Physical Review Letters
%K 4d, black-hole-condensation, entropy, extremal-black-holes
%N 3
%P 428+
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.428
%T Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Extremal Black Holes
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.428
%V 77
%X String theory is used to count microstates of four-dimensional extremal black holes in compactifications with N = 4 and N = 8 supersymmetry. The result agrees for large charges with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
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title = {Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Extremal Black Holes},
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