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Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy

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arxiv hep-th/9601029 v2 pith:P7F5OSJA submitted 1996-01-09 hep-th gr-qc

Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy

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The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation $S_{BH}=A/4$ is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS soliton bound states.

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