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" Partition functions for supersymmetric black holes / "
door Jan Manschot.
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BL
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956371
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b710741
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Manschot, Jan,1980-
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Partition functions for supersymmetric black holes /\ door Jan Manschot.
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[Amsterdam] :: Amsterdam University Press,, ©2008.
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UvA Proefschriften Ser.
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1 online resource (ii, 154 pages)
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9048507804
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: 9789048507801
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9789056295400
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-144).
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1. PREFACE; 2. MOTIVATIONS FOR BLACK HOLE PARTITION FUNCTIONS; 3. BLACK HOLES IN M-THEORY; 4. VECTOR-VALUED MODULAR FORMS; 5. INTERPRETATIONS AND APPLICATIONS; 6. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUMMARY; SAMENVATTING; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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This dissertation presents recent discoveries on partition functions for four-dimensional supersymmetric black holes. These partition functions are important tools to explain the entropy of black holes from a microscopic point of view within string theory and M-theory. The results are applied to two central research topics in modern theoretical physics, namely (1) the correspondence between the physics (including gravity) within an Anti-de Sitter space and conformal field theory, and (2) the relation between black holes and topological strings.
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Astrophysics.
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Black holes (Astronomy)
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Astrophysics.
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Black holes (Astronomy)
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SCIENCE-- Astronomy.
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523.8/875
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QB843.B55M36 2008eb
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