Duality and black hole partition functions

@misc{citeulike:1143490, abstract = {Supersymmetric black holes provide an excellent theoretical laboratory to test ideas about quantum gravity in general and black hole entropy in particular. When four-dimensional supergravity is interpreted as the low-energy approximation of ten-dimensional string theory or eleven-dimensional M-theory, one has a microscopic description of the black hole which allows one to count microstates and to compare the result to the macroscopic (geometrical) entropy. Recently it has been conjectured that there is a very direct connection between the partition function of the topological string and a partition function for supersymmetric black holes. We review this idea and propose a modification which makes it compatible with electric-magnetic duality.}, author = {Mohaupt, T. }, citeulike-article-id = {1143490}, eprint = {hep-th/0703036}, keywords = {black, function, hole, partition}, month = {Mar}, posted-at = {2007-03-06 11:05:19}, priority = {2}, title = {Duality and black hole partition functions}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0703036}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1143490 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1143490 TI - Duality and black hole partition functions N2 - Supersymmetric black holes provide an excellent theoretical laboratory to test ideas about quantum gravity in general and black hole entropy in particular. When four-dimensional supergravity is interpreted as the low-energy approximation of ten-dimensional string theory or eleven-dimensional M-theory, one has a microscopic description of the black hole which allows one to count microstates and to compare the result to the macroscopic (geometrical) entropy. Recently it has been conjectured that there is a very direct connection between the partition function of the topological string and a partition function for supersymmetric black holes. We review this idea and propose a modification which makes it compatible with electric-magnetic duality. KW - black KW - function KW - hole KW - partition AU - Mohaupt, T PY - 2007/Mar/05/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0703036 ER -