Partition Functions for Supersymmetric Black Holes

By Jan Manschot

This dissertation presents recent discoveries on partition functions for four-dimensional supersymmetric black holes. These partition functions are important tools to explain the entropy of black holes from a microscopic point of view within string theory and M-theory. The results are applied to two central research topics in modern theoretical physics, namely (1) the correspondence between the physics (including gravity) within an Anti-de Sitter space and conformal field theory, and (2) the relation between black holes and topological strings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9056295403
• ISBN13: 9789056295400
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"