Abstract
It is well known that the thermodynamics of certain near-extremal black holes in asymptotically flat space can be lifted to an effective string description created from the intersection of D-branes. In this paper we present evidence that the semiclassical thermodynamics of near-extremal R-charged black holes in AdS5 × S5 is described in a similar manner by effective strings created from the intersection of giant gravitons on the S5. We also present a free fermion description of the supersymmetric limit of the one-charge black hole, and we give a crude catalog of the microstates of the two and three-charge black holes in terms of operators in the dual conformal field theory.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1351-1368 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 11 |
State | Published - Nov 1 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Keywords
- AdS-CFT and dS-CFT Correspondence
- Black Holes in String Theory