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Black Holes in String Theory

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This is a set of introductory lecture notes on black holes in string theory. After reviewing some aspects of string theory such as dualities, brane solutions, supersymmetric and non-extremal intersection rules, we analyze in detail extremal and non-extremal 5d black holes. We first present the D-brane counting for extremal black holes. Then we show that 4d and 5d non-extremal black holes can be mapped to the BTZ black hole (times a compact manifold) by means of dualities. The validity of these dualities is analyzed in detail. We present an analysis of the same system in the spirit of the adS/CFT correspondence. In the “near-horizon” limit (which is actually a near inner-horizon limit for non-extremal black holes) the black hole reduces again to the BTZ black hole. A state counting is presented in terms of the BTZ black hole.

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Skenderis, K. (2000). Black Holes in String Theory. In: Kowalski-Glikman, J. (eds) Towards Quantum Gravity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46634-7_12

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