DOI 10.1007/s100520000298
Black string entropy from anomalous D-brane couplings
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
Received: 9 May 1999 / Published online: 17 March 2000 - © Springer-Verlag 2000
Abstract
The quantum corrections to the counting of statistical entropy for the
5+1-dimensional extremal black string in type-IIB supergravity with two
observers are studied using anomalous Wess-Zumino actions for the corresponding intersecting D-brane description. The electric-magnetic duality symmetry of the anomalous theory implies a new symmetry between D-string and D-fivebrane sources and renders opposite sign for the RR charge of one of the intersecting D-branes relative to that of the black string. The electric-magnetic symmetric Hilbert space decomposes into subspaces associated with interior and exterior regions and it is shown that,
for an outside observer, the expectation value of a horizon area operator agrees with the deviation of the classical horizon area in going from extremal to near-extremal black strings.
Copyright Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2000
