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Accelerating Branes and the String/Black Hole Transition

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String theory in Euclidean flat space with a spacelike linear dilaton contains a D1-brane which looks like a semi-infinite hairpin. In addition to its curved shape, this ``hairpin brane'' has a condensate of the open string tachyon stretched between its two sides. The tachyon smears the brane and shifts the location of its tip. The Minkowski continuation of the hairpin brane describes a D0-brane freely falling in a linear dilaton background. Effects that in Euclidean space are attributed to the tachyon condensate, give rise in the Minkowski case to a stringy smearing of the trajectory of the D-brane by an amount that grows as its acceleration increases. When the Unruh temperature of the brane reaches the Hagedorn temperature of perturbative string theory in the throat, the rolling D-brane state becomes non-normalizable. We propose that black holes in string theory exhibit similar properties. The Euclidean black hole solution has a condensate of a tachyon winding around Euclidean time. The Minkowski manifestation of this condensate is a smearing of the geometry in a layer around the horizon. As the Hawking temperature, T_{bh}, increases, the width of this layer grows. When T_{bh} reaches the Hagedorn temperature, the size of this ``smeared horizon'' diverges, and the black hole becomes non-normalizable. This provides a new point of view on the string/black hole transition.

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One-loop effect in the charged 2D black hole near extremality

hep-th · 2026-04-16 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

The one-loop correction to near-extremal quantum entropy in this charged 2D black hole is exponentially suppressed at low temperature but scales as sqrt(beta) when the sl(2,R) level and SL(2,R)-U(1) coupling are tuned, providing a worldsheet realization of the black hole/string transition.

From Horowitz -- Polchinski to Thirring and Back

hep-th · 2025-09-03 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

New continuation method via affine SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R level variation relates near-Hagedorn black holes and HP solutions to solvable EFT limit of non-abelian Thirring model.

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  • One-loop effect in the charged 2D black hole near extremality hep-th · 2026-04-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 51

    The one-loop correction to near-extremal quantum entropy in this charged 2D black hole is exponentially suppressed at low temperature but scales as sqrt(beta) when the sl(2,R) level and SL(2,R)-U(1) coupling are tuned, providing a worldsheet realization of the black hole/string transition.

  • From Horowitz -- Polchinski to Thirring and Back hep-th · 2025-09-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 1 · internal anchor

    New continuation method via affine SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R level variation relates near-Hagedorn black holes and HP solutions to solvable EFT limit of non-abelian Thirring model.

  • Fiducial observers and the thermal atmosphere in the black hole quantum throat hep-th · 2025-07-28 · unverdicted · none · ref 75 · internal anchor

    A semiclassical construction of fiducial observers in JT gravity, fixed by conformal isometry flow, is extended to the quantum regime to compute wormhole contributions yielding finite thermal entropy and a quantum description of the stretched horizon.

  • Hadrons in $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD from non-Abelian string on 2D black hole hep-th · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · none · ref 60

    The hadron spectrum in N=2 SQCD with N_f=2N is given by the spectrum of a non-Abelian string on a 2D N=2 supersymmetric black hole, with a Higgs-to-string phase transition viewed as a conifold transition.

  • Lecture notes on strings in AdS$_3$ from the worldsheet and the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ duality hep-th · 2026-01-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 194 · internal anchor

    Lecture notes deliver a self-contained pedagogical overview of worldsheet strings in AdS3 with NSNS flux, summarizing 25 years of results with emphasis on spectrally flowed correlation functions.