Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Extremal Black Holes
- 15 July 1996
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 77 (3), 428-429
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.428
Abstract
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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