• DOI:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0
Corpus ID: 1041890

Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy

@article{Strominger1996MicroscopicOO,
  title={Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy},
  author={A. Strominger and C. Vafa},
  journal={Physics Letters B},
  year={1996},
  volume={379},
  pages={99-104}
}

A. Strominger, C. Vafa

Published 1996

Physics

Physics Letters B

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Abstract The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation S BH = A 4 is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS solition bound states.