We review recent results in the study of regular four dimensional BPS black holes in toroidally compactified type II (or M) theory. We discuss the generating solution for this kind of black holes, its microscopic description(s), and compute the corresponding microscopic entropy. These achievements, which provide a description of the fundamental degrees of freedom accounting for the entropy of any regular BPS black hole in the theory under consideration, are inscribed within a research project aimed to the study of the microscopic properties of this kind of solutions in relation to U--duality invariants computed on the corresponding macroscopic (supergravity) description.
Titolo: | How much can supergravity teach us about microscopic features of BPS black holes? |
Autori: | Bertolini M; Trigiante M |
Titolo del libro: | 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories (MG 9) - PROCEEDINGS |
Editore: | Singapore, World Scientific |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2002 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1 Contribution in Conference proceedings |