BPS spectrum of the five-brane and black hole entropy

Robbert Dijkgraaf; Erik Verlinde; Herman Verlinde

doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00638-4

BPS spectrum of the five-brane and black hole entropy

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Erik Verlinde, Herman Verlinde

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Abstract

We propose a formulation of 11-dimensional M-theory in terms of five-branes with closed strings on their world-volume. We use this description to construct the complete spectrum of BPS states in compactifications to six and five dimensions. We compute the degeneracy for fixed charge and find it to be in accordance with U-duality (which in our formulation is manifest in six dimensions) and the statistical entropy formula of the corresponding black hole. We also briefly comment on the compactification to four dimensions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	77-88
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nuclear Physics B
Volume	486
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00638-4
State	Published - Feb 17 1997

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Keywords

Black holes
Duality
Entropy
Five-brane
M-theory
String theory

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