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Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy

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Strominger, Andrew, Vafa, Cumrun·1996·Physics Letters B
DOI 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0
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Authors
Strominger, A., & Vafa, C.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
ORCID
Vafa, Cumrun
Venue
Physics Letters B
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1996-06
Volume
379
Issue
1-4
Pages
99-104
ISSN
0370-2693 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0
OpenAlex
W2130491267
Cited by
3,072
References
12
Citations by year
2026: 121 · 2025: 174 · 2024: 131 · 2023: 152 · 2022: 105 · 2021: 110 · 2020: 132 · 2019: 140 · 2018: 84 · 2017: 105 · 2016: 108 · 2015: 86 · 2014: 84 · 2013: 105 · 2012: 95
FWCI
83.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Physics Letters B (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Keywords
Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, black hole entropy, BPS solitons, bound states, microscopic entropy, string theory

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